ransomern.
/ˈransəmə/, /ˈransm̩ə/, U.S. /ˈrænsəmər/ 1. A person who ransoms someone or something, a person who pays a ransom; a redeemer, spec. (now frequently with capital initial) Christ.
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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun] > one who rescues or delivers
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > redeemer
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > ransom > [noun] > one who ransoms
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > as saviour
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 15043 (MED) Gloria..Ha þou nu lauerd and ai, Crist and king and ransconer [a1400 Gött. ransuner; a1400 Trin. Cambr. raumsonere] O folk o godds lai.
c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 682 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 83 Thru þe wes myn ransoner.
1539 R. Taverner tr. W. Capito Epitome of Psalmes (new ed.) i. sig. P.ij Be thou my defence, my buckler, bulwarke, rescuer, and raunsomer.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxxiv. 23) Ere God can appeere to bee their raunsomer.
1609 T. Wilson Expos. Sixt Chapter Hebrewes i. 61 What prisoner ransomed from slauery of Turke or other, would be so vnthankfull to his ransomer, or so harmefull to himselfe, as to returne backward to his former cruell Lord?
1653 J. Ford Queen iv Go be a famous subject; be a ransomer of thy Queen from dangers.
1704 B. Jenks Second Cent. Medit. xxv. 97 The Ransomer became our Ransom.
1779 J. Torris Let. 30 June in B. Franklin Papers (1992) XXIX. 783 He will wait for your Answer, how he shall manage the said Ransomer.
1802 J. Jamieson Use Sacred Hist. I. i. 86 Elihu speaks of the Messiah as a Ransomer.
1870 R. C. Jebb Sophocles' Electra (ed. 2) 9/1 A ransomed prisoner-of-war and his ransomer.
1933 E. Prestage Portuguese Pioneers iv. 67 On the following day as many as 100 individuals, male and female, were brought for selection, and of these Gonçalves took ten, the negotiations being managed by one Martin Fernandes, Henry's official ransomer.
1991 Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Encycl. 810/2 The notion of ransom paid by a ransomer touches upon the very core of the mystery of salvation.
2. A person held as security for the payment of a ransom for a ship. Now historical.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > security > [noun] > a hostage
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1707 London Gaz. No. 4326/3 This Privateer had on Board eight Ransomers for Vessels taken in this Chanel.
1784 Ann. Reg. 1782 Chron. 199/1 A flag of truce arrived here last week with some ransomers.
1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. II. 249 She had on board a ransomer for the Antigua Merchant, for 3,333 guineas.
1829 London Encycl. XIII. 563/1 If a ship be taken by the enemy, and ransomed, the owners are liable to pay the ransom; though the ransomer die in the hands of the captors.
1953 A. P. Middleton Tobacco Coast ix. 282 Nehemiah Mills of Elizabeth City, Virginia, became ‘ransomer’ or hostage for his ship in 1709.
3. Roman Catholic Church. Also with capital initial.
a. A member of the Order of Our Lady of Ransom (also called Our Lady of Mercy), founded in the 13th cent. to free Christians taken prisoner by the Muslims; = Mercedarian n. Now historical.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Trinitarian > [noun] > Ransomer
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1756 A. Butler Lives Saints I. 210 Two members of the Order should be sent together among the infidels to treat about the ransom of christian slaves, and these are hence called ransomers.
1899 B. Meakin Moorish Empire 279 Those whose errands were chiefly or entirely missionary, whose numbers decreased as those of the Ransomers increased.
1962 J. S. Cummins Trav. Friar Domingo Navarrete II. 400 The Ransomers, more usually known in English as Mercedarians, belonged to the Order of Our Lady of Mercy, founded by St Peter Nolasco (A.D. 1218) for the redemption of Christian captives from the Moors.
b. A member of the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom, founded in 1887 with the principal aim of converting England and Wales to the Roman Catholic faith.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > conversion to Catholicism > [noun] > person practising > of England
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1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Apr. 6/2 The Guild was inaugurated about two years ago..and already numbers 12,000 members, called ‘Ransomers’.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 1 June 9/2 An enormous gathering of ordinary lay Catholics, including ‘Ransomers’, whose special mission is to pray for the conversion of England.
1928 P. Fletcher (title) Recollections of a Ransomer.
1989 Heythrop Jrnl. 30 308 Like their medieval predecessors, members of the Guild of Ransom sought to free ‘captives from heresy’, but in turn-of-the-century England Ransomers replaced the old methods of paying ransom and serving as surrogates for the captives with a new approach that combined soapbox oratory and the sponsorship of pilgrimages to the shrines of the English martyrs.
2007 www.ransomer.org.uk 2 Nov. (O.E.D. Archive) The Daily Prayer said by Ransomers in England.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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