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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)

  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?”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
  2. (not comparable) 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

comparativemore unredeemed
superlativemost 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

  1. unredeem
  2. unredeemability
  3. unredeemable
  4. unredeemableness
  5. unredeemably
  6. unredeemed
  7. unredeemedly
  8. unredeemedness
  9. unredeeming
  10. unredeemingly
  11. unredeems

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