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REDEMPTION

Volume 17 · 55 words · 1815 Edition

in Law, a faculty or right of re-entering upon lands, &c., that have been sold and assigned, upon reimbursing the purchase-money with legal costs.

in Theology, denotes the recovery of mankind from sin and death, by the obedience and sacrifice of Christ, who on this account is called the Redeemer of the world. See THEOLOGY.