redemptory

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈdɛm(p)təɹi/

Adjective

redemptory (comparative more redemptory, superlative most redemptory)

1. Paid as ransom; serving to redeem.

   Synonym: redeeming

   • [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:

     Omega sings the Exsequies, / And Hector's redemptory prise.

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

• “redemptory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.