redeem

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 484 words | Copyright

redeem buy back; free (mortgaged property) by payment; free by paying ransom; deliver, spec. from sin XV; make up for, compensate XVI. — F. rédimer or L. redimere f. RED- + emere buy, orig. take.
Hence redeemer (-ER1) XV. So redemption action of freeing or delivering; ransom. XIV. — (O)F. rédemption — L. redemptiō, -ōn-, f. redempt-, pp. stem of redimere. Redemptorist member of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. XIX. — F.

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