redeem

/ɹɪˈdiːm/ verbe C1

En français : racheter, libérer, secourir, soulager

To recover ownership of something by buying it back. (transitive)
To liberate by payment of a ransom. (transitive)
To set free by force. (transitive)
To save, rescue. (transitive)
To clear, release from debt or blame. (transitive)
To expiate, atone (for). (transitive)
To convert (some bond or security) into cash. (transitive)
To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences). (transitive)

He/she/it redeems · Prétérit redeemed · Participe passé redeemed · Forme en -ing redeeming

Formes du verbe

Forme de base: redeem
He/she/it: redeems
Prétérit: redeemed
Participe passé: redeemed
Forme en -ing: redeeming

Dans la bibliothèque

“These are all so many empty words, my dear sir,” said Morcerf: “they might satisfy a new acquaintance, but the Comte de Morcerf does not rank in that list; and when a man like him comes to another, recalls to him his plighted word, and this man fails to redeem the pledge, he has at least a right to exact from him a good reason for so doing.”

The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 797 · C1

It encourages the comfortable belief that our character will be revealed, and perhaps redeemed, in some future moment of crisis, and that the rest of life is a kind of morally neutral waiting room.

The Ethics of the Ordinary, p. 1 · C2

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