unredeemed
unredeemed adjective: not redeemed; not granted redemption or salvation; unsaved. Also the simple past and past participle of unredeem.
Adjective
unredeemed (comparative more unredeemed, superlative most unredeemed)
- 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?”1911, Stephen Leacock, “The Man in Asbestos: an Allegory of the Future”, in Nonsense Novels, Canadian edition, Montreal, Que.: Publishers’ Press, Limited, page 229
- The poet is more in sympathy with the tragic, waiting, unredeemed phase of things than with any transcendental promise.1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xix
- 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...1896 July 18, The Speaker: A Review of Politics, Letters, Science, and the Arts, volume XIV, London: […], page 53, column 2
Also used as
unredeemed is also the simple past and past participle of unredeem.
Forms of unredeemed
| comparative | more unredeemed |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unredeemed |
Origin of unredeemed
From un- + redeemed.
Words formed from unredeemed
Questions about unredeemed
- What does unredeemed mean?
- Unredeemed means not redeemed; not granted redemption or salvation; unsaved.
- What part of speech is unredeemed?
- Unredeemed is an adjective.
Words near unredeemed in the dictionary
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