Ransomed vs Redeemed - What's the difference?
ransomed | redeemed |
(ransom)
Money paid for the freeing of a hostage.
* 1674 , , Paradise Lost , Book XII:
* Sir J. Davies
* 2010 , Caroline Alexander, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad :
The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration.
(historical, legal, UK) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
To deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties.
To pay a price to set someone free from captivity or punishment.
To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
(of a person) Granted redemption or salvation.
(of a coupon or offer) Spent; used in a purchase, and thus no longer usable.
(redeem)
As verbs the difference between ransomed and redeemed
is that ransomed is past tense of ransom while redeemed is past tense of redeem.As an adjective redeemed is
granted redemption or salvation.ransomed
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Verb
(head)ransom
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(wikipedia ransom)Noun
(en-noun)- They were held for two million dollars ransom .
- They were held to ransom .
- Thy ransom paid, which man from death redeems.
- His captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty.
- As rich as was the ransom Priam paid for Hektor, Hermes says, his remaining sons at Troy “'would give three times as much ransom / for you, who are alive, were Atreus' son Agamemnon / to recognize you.'”
- prisoners hopeless of ransom
- (Dryden)
- (Blackstone)
Usage notes
* (term) is much more common in the US, (to) in the UK.Derived terms
* king's ransomVerb
- to ransom prisoners from an enemy
- Such lands as he had rule of he ransomed them so grievously, and would tax the men two or three times in a year. — Berners.