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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

redemptory en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ɹɪˈdɛm(p)təɹi/

Meanings

  1. Paid as ransom; serving to redeem.
    • Omega sings the Exsequies, / And Hector's redemptory prise. [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

Forms

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most redemptory Degree=Sup lexicographic
more redemptory Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

redeeming