Both Uses of
redeem
in
David Copperfield
- I redeemed that promise afterwards, in characters larger than those in which apartments are usually announced in manuscript, as being to let.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- And yet I did not despise him the more for it, but thought it a redeeming quality in him if he could be allowed any grace for not resisting one so irresistible as Steerforth.†
Chpt 19-21
Definition:
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(redeem as in: its main redeeming quality is...) to make up for something bad; or to save