Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who ransoms or redeems.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who ransoms or redeems.
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- noun person who pays a
ransom
Etymologies
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Examples
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There are a number of components that allow us to profile the ransomer, who is most likely also the thief.
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You can ignore the ransomer, and hope the police track him down, or you can try to draw the ransomer into a trap, helping the police.
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So determined was Saint Raymond Nonnatus that when Peter Nolasco retired as chief ransomer, the saint succeeded him in this office.
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But perhaps even this is not always true; e.g. should a man who has been ransomed out of the hands of brigands ransom his ransomer in return, whoever he may be (or pay him if he has not been captured but demands payment) or should he ransom his father?
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The victor was defeated, the monarch was dethroned, the ransomer of prisoners was in captivity, the general was deserted by his soldiers, the master abandoned by his domestics, the brother parted from his brethren, the husband severed from the wife, and the father torn from his only child.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827
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Raymond made such progress in the religious life that he was soon considered worthy to succeed his master in the office of ransomer.
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Agias was full of protestations of delight at beholding his intercessor and ransomer.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
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Thou hast loosed my bonds, and thereby bound me for ever to wear Thy yoke '; as the slave clings to his ransomer, and delights to serve him all the days of his life?
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But perhaps even this is not always true; e.g. should a man who has been ransomed out of the hands of brigands ransom his ransomer in return, whoever he may be (or pay him if he has not been captured but demands payment) or should he ransom his father?
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In the discharge of his office of ransomer, he purchased at Algiers the liberty of a great number of slaves.
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