All 6 Uses of
redeem
in
Oliver Twist
- Oliver had been too often subjected to the process to which the very expressive monosyllable just recorded bears reference, to entertain the smallest doubt that the owner of the voice, whoever he might be, would redeem his pledge, most honourably.†
Chpt 5
- For years—for years—I have loved you; hoping to win my way to fame, and then come proudly home and tell you it had been pursued only for you to share; thinking, in my daydreams, how I would remind you, in that happy moment, of the many silent tokens I had given of a boy's attachment, and claim your hand, as in redemption of some old mute contract that had been sealed between us!†
Chpt 35
- 'I judge that she had kept the trinket, for some time, in the hope of turning it to better account; and then had pawned it; and had saved or scraped together money to pay the pawnbroker's interest year by year, and prevent its running out; so that if anything came of it, it could still be redeemed.†
Chpt 38
- The time was out in two days; I thought something might one day come of it too; and so redeemed the pledge.'†
Chpt 38
- You have a claim on me: not only as the voluntary bearer of this intelligence, but as a woman lost almost beyond redemption.†
Chpt 40
- CHAPTER XLIV THE TIME ARRIVES FOR NANCY TO REDEEM HER PLEDGE TO ROSE MAYLIE.†
Chpt 44 *
Definition:
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(redeem as in: its main redeeming quality is...) to make up for something bad; or to save