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unredeemed

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English redeemed English unredeemed From un- + redeemed.

  1. Not redeemed; not granted redemption or salvation; unsaved.

    “Asbestos, do you think that those jelly-bag Equalities out on the street there, with their ash-barrel suits, can be compared for one moment with our unredeemed, unreformed, heaven-created, hobble-skirted women of the twentieth century?”

    The poet is more in sympathy with the tragic, waiting, unredeemed phase of things than with any transcendental promise.

  2. Unspent; not used in a purchase, and thus still usable.

    Its redeemability converts the redemptors into rent-chargers, and, according to an official report quoted in Mr. Dowell’s “History of Taxation in England,” ever since Pitt’s rearrangement the unredeemed amounts have been regarded as a fixed charge on properties, subject to which they have been bought and sold many times over.

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English redeemed English unredeemed From un- + redeemed.

  1. simple past and past participle of unredeem