Ransomed
[rænsəmd]
Definition
(adj.) reclaimed by payment of a ransom .
(adj.) saved from the bondage of sin .
Typist: Stephanie--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Ransom
Typist: Stanley
Examples
- Speak, Jew--have I not ransomed thee from Sathanas? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This provoked the Seventh Crusade, the Crusade of St. Louis, King of France (Louis IX), who was taken prisoner in Egypt and ransomed in 1250. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On rising, another struck up a Methodist hymn, of which the burden was, The year of Jubilee is come,-- Return, ye ransomed sinners, home. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Typist: Stanley