All 5 Uses of
redeem
in
The Fountainhead
- There's always a redeeming feature.†
Chpt 1.12 *
- But this was pity—this complete awareness of a man without worth or hope, this sense of finality, of the not to be redeemed.†
Chpt 4.8
- I had no right to kneel and seek redemption.†
Chpt 4.16
- …and the things which had been precious, surrendered to the sight of all, to the pawing and the bargaining, trash to the indifferent eyes of strangers, the equality of a junk heap, typewriters and violins—the tools of dreams, old photographs and wedding rings—the tags of love, together with soiled trousers, coffee pots, ash trays, pornographic plaster figures; the refuse of despair, pledged, not sold, not cut off in clean finality, but hocked to a stillborn hope, never to be redeemed.†
Chpt 4.16
- He saw a way to redeem Wynand's name.†
Chpt 4.17
Definition:
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(redeem as in: its main redeeming quality is...) to make up for something bad; or to save