redemptionary
English
editEtymology
editFrom redemption + -ary.
Noun
editredemptionary (plural redemptionaries)
- One who is, or may be, redeemed; one who is set at liberty, or released from a bond, by paying compensation or fulfilling stipulated conditions.
- 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
- […] be admitted in the said society, but as redemptionaries, which will be very chargeable
References
edit“redemptionary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.