Redemptory: alternatives and connections

someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)

To redeem.

Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver.

to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trai…

to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trai…

The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, s…

To enter upon the credit side of an account; to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as, to credit…

An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the int…

That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document.

To redeem from mortgage.

Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitt…

Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.

The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service,…

to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trai…

someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)

someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)

The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to…

Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.