ransom

Definition of ransom in English English dictionary: To pay a price to set someone free from captivity or punishment; To deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties; Money paid for the freeing of a hostage; To exact a ransom for, or a payment on; money demanded for the return of a captured person; A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment; Clan custom dictates that a warrior who has been succesful at his Trial of Bloodright may be rewarded by a gift from the Clan Depending upon the warrior's succes during the Trial, the ransom might range form the right to choose what type of weapon he will use as a warrior to the right to command a special unit; the price or payment made for our redemption, as when it is said that the Son of man "gave his life a ransom for many" (Matt 20: 28; comp Acts 20: 28; Rom 3: 23, 24; 1 Cor 6: 19, 20; Gal 3: 13; 4: 4, 5: Eph 1: 7; Col 1: 14; 1 Tim 2: 6; Titus 2: 14; 1 Pet 1: 18, 19 In all these passages the same idea is expressed) This word is derived from the Fr rancon; Lat redemptio The debt is represented not as cancelled but as fully paid The slave or captive is not liberated by a mere gratuitous favour, but a ransom price has been paid, in consideration of which he is set free The original owner receives back his alienated and lost possession because he has bought it back "with a price " This price or ransom (Gr lutron) is always said to be Christ, his blood, his death He secures our redemption by the payment of a ransom (See REDEMPTION ); To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy; payment for the release of someone; {i} redemption of a prisoner for a price; sum paid for the release of a prisoner; G3083 lutron, loo'-tron; from G3089; something to loosen with, i e a redemption price (fig atonement): --ransom; (apolutrosis) Redemption The act of buying back slaves or prisoners Used in LXX to translate Hebrew padah, set free or redeem by payment, and ga'al, to set free, acting as kin; A ransom is the money that has to be paid to someone so that they will set free a person they have kidnapped. Her kidnapper successfully extorted a £175,000 ransom for her release; disapproval If you say that someone is holding you to ransom in British English, or holding you for ransom in American English, you mean that they are using their power to try to force you to do something which you do not want to do. Unison and the other unions have the power to hold the Government to ransom. to pay an amount of money so that someone who is being held as a prisoner is set free; the act of freeing from captivity or punishment; If you ransom someone who has been kidnapped, you pay the money to set them free. The same system was used for ransoming or exchanging captives; The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom; the act of freeing from captivity or punishment payment for the release of someone money demanded for the return of a captured person exchange or buy back for money; under threat; Clan custom dictates that a warrior who has been successful at his Trial of Bloodright may be rewarded with a gift by the Clan Depending upon the warrior's success during the Trial, the ransom might range from the right to choose what type of weapon he will use as a warrior to the right to command a special unit; {f} release, liberate, free; pay money for the release of a prisoner; If a kidnapper is holding someone to ransom or holding them ransom in British English, or is holding a person for ransom in American English, they keep that person prisoner until they are given what they want He is charged with kidnapping a businessman last year and holding him for ransom; The release of a captive by payment Specifically, the means by which man is set free from sin; or simply, "redemption "; exchange or buy back for money; under threat; The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit; raunsoun
ransom money: payment for the release of a kidnapped person or hostage
king's ransom: A large sum of money
Carl Ransom Rogers: born Jan. 8, 1902, Oak Park, Ill., U.S. died Feb. 4, 1987, La Jolla, Calif. U.S. psychologist. He trained at Teachers College, Columbia University (Ph.D., 1931), and directed a children's agency in New York before taking teaching positions at various universities. In 1963 he helped found an institute for the study of the person in La Jolla, Calif. He is known as the originator of client-centred, or nondirective, psychotherapy, and he helped establish humanistic psychology. His writings include Counseling and Psychotherapy (1942), Client-Centered Therapy (1951), Psychotherapy and Personality Change (1954), and On Becoming a Person (1961)
John Crowe Ransom: born April 30, 1888, Pulaski, Tenn., U.S. died July 4, 1974, Gambier, Ohio U.S. poet and critic. Ransom attended and later taught at Vanderbilt University, where he became the leader of the Fugitives, a group of poets who shared a belief in the South and its agrarian traditions and published the influential journal The Fugitive (1922-25); he was among those Fugitives called Agrarian who contributed to I'll Take My Stand (1930). At Kenyon College, he founded and edited (1939-59) the Kenyon Review. His literary studies include The New Criticism (1941), which gave its name to an important critical movement (see New Criticism), and he became recognized as a leading theorist of the post-World War I Southern literary renaissance. His Selected Poems (1945; rev. ed., 1969) won the National Book Award
a king's ransom: large sum of money; large treasure
king's ransom: a very large treasure
ransomed: reclaimed by payment of a ransom
ransomed: reclaimed by payment of a ransom saved from the bondage of sin
ransomed: saved from the bondage of sin
ransomed: past of ransom
ransomer: One who ransoms or redeems
ransomer: {i} releaser, liberator; one who pays money for the release of a prisoner
ransomer: A person who pays a ransom
ransoming: present participle of ransom
ransoms: third-person singular of ransom

ransom

Hyphenation

ran·som

Turkish pronunciation

ränsım

Synonyms

bribe, compensation, deliverance, expiation, liberation money, payment, payoff, price, redemption, release, rescue, buy freedom of, buy out, deliver, emancipate

Pronunciation

/ˈransəm/ /ˈrænsəm/

Etymology

[ ran(t)-s&m ] (noun.) 13th century. From the Middle English ransoun, from the Old French rançon, from the Latin redemption-, redemptio- (see redemption). Entered English ca. the 13th century