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Ransomer

 [ran-suhm]   Origin

ran·som

   [ran-suhm]
noun
1.
the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
2.
the sum or price paid or demanded.
3.
a means of deliverance or rescue from punishment for sin, especially the payment of a redemptive fine.
verb (used with object)
4.
to redeem from captivity, bondage, detention, etc., by paying a demanded price.
5.
to release or restore on receipt of a ransom.
6.
to deliver or redeem from punishment for sin.

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Origin:
1150–1200; (noun) Middle English ransoun < Old French rançon < Late Latin redēmptiōn- (stem of redēmptiō) redemption; (v.) Middle English ransounen < Old French rançonner, derivative of rançon

Related forms
ran·som·er, noun
un·ran·somed, adjective

Synonyms
1. deliverance, liberation, release. 4. See redeem.

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ransom (ˈrænsəm)
 
—n
1.  the release of captured prisoners, property, etc, on payment of a stipulated price
2.  the price demanded or stipulated for such a release
3.  rescue or redemption of any kind
4.  hold to ransom
 a.  to keep (prisoners, property, etc) in confinement until payment for their release is made or received
 b.  to attempt to force (a person or persons) to comply with one's demands
5.  a king's ransom a very large amount of money or valuables
 
—vb
6.  to pay a stipulated price and so obtain the release of (prisoners, property, etc)
7.  to set free (prisoners, property, etc) upon receiving the payment demanded
8.  to redeem; rescue: Christ ransomed men from sin
 
[C14: from Old French ransoun, from Latin redemptiō a buying back, redemption]
 
'ransomer
 
—n

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ransom
early 13c., "sum paid for the release of a prisoner or captured man," from O.Fr. ranson (Fr. rançon), earlier raenson "ransom, redemption," from L. redemptionem (nom. redemptio) "a redeeming," from redimere (see redeem). The verb is first recorded c.1300.
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