ransomed

noun

1. the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
2. the sum or price paid or demanded.
3. a means of deliverance or rescue from punishment for sin, especially the payment of a redemptive fine.

verb (used with object)

4. to redeem from captivity, bondage, detention, etc., by paying a demanded price.
5. to release or restore on receipt of a ransom.
6. to deliver or redeem from punishment for sin.

noun

1. the release of captured prisoners, property, etc, on payment of a stipulated price
2. the price demanded or stipulated for such a release
3. rescue or redemption of any kind
4. hold to ransom
   1. to keep (prisoners, property, etc) in confinement until payment for their release is made or received
   2. to attempt to force (a person or persons) to comply with one’s demands
5. a king’s ransom a very large amount of money or valuables

verb (tr)

6. to pay a stipulated price and so obtain the release of (prisoners, property, etc)
7. to set free (prisoners, property, etc) upon receiving the payment demanded
8. to redeem; rescueChrist ransomed men from sin

noun

1. John Crowe . 1888–1974, US poet and critic

n.

c.1200, “sum paid for the release of a prisoner or captured man,” from Old French ranson (Modern French rançon), earlier raenson “ransom, redemption,” from Latin redemptionem (nominative redemptio) “a redeeming,” from redimere (see redeem).

early 14c., from ransom (n.). Related: Ransomed; ransoming.

see king’s ransom.