Unredeemed

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  † 1.  Unretrieved, unremedied. Obs.^–1

1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (1531), 264 b. That no circumstance sholde be lefte vnredemed that myght let thy saluacyon.

  2.  Not spiritually redeemed; unsaved.

1548.  Geste, Pr. Masse, I viij b. Ther shuld be made … prayer for the dead to … release them wyth al (as otherwyse vnredemed and payned).

1662.  Jer. Taylor, Three Serm. (1663), 82. The state of a carnal, unredeemed, unregenerate person.

1752.  Law, Spir. Prayer, I. 90. Our Redemption is this new Birth; if this is not done, or doing in us, we are still unredeemed.

1850.  Hawthorne, Scarlet L., xviii. Breathing the wild, free atmosphere of an unredeemed, unchristianized, lawless region.

  absol.  1827.  Pollok, Course T., VIII. 796. He stood With eye, of all the unredeemed, most sad.

  3.  Not recovered, ransomed, or released, by purchase or otherwise. (In quot. 1896 = IRREDEEMED.)

1554.  [see UNRANSOMED].

1572.  N. Roscarrocke, Prelim. Verses, in Bossewell, Armorie. Caparisons ther fixed hang,… With armors fully furnished, and gauntlets vnredeemd.

1648.  Hexham, II. Ongelost, Vnredeemed, or Vnreleased.

1845.  McCulloch, Taxation, I. i. 59, note. The land-tax redeemed amounts to 737,283l. a-year, and the unredeemed to 1,069,904l. a-year.

1856.  Kingsley, Misc. (1859), II. 3. [Lands] yet unredeemed from the wild beast and the wild hunter.

1896.  Daily News, 16 Oct., 5/3. The most elaborate [wreath] being sent by the other ‘unredeemed’ Italian city of Trieste.

  b.  spec. Not recovered from pawn.

1859.  Sala, Tw. round Clock (1861), 180. The articles sold … are all pawnbrokers’ pledges unredeemed.

1881.  E. F. Poynter, Among the Hills, II. 30. Teapot and candlesticks both had long ago been pledged and unredeemed.

  4.  Not remedied or relieved (by some good quality or feature); unmitigated; absolutely bad.

1805.  W. Roscoe, Leo X., II. 22. A man so totally unredeemed by a single virtue.

1843.  Carlyle, Past & Pr., III. xii. The unredeemed ugliness is that of a slothful People.

1862.  ‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton), Nugæ Crit., vi. 320. The villain of the piece, who is … an unredeemed and impossible blackguard.

1896.  H. G. Wells, Wheels of Chance, viii. He was not an unredeemed rough taking advantage of a mistake.

  5.  Not performed or realized.

1812.  L. Hunt, in Examiner, 7 Dec., 770/2. Your promise has remained unredeemed.

1862.  Goulburn, Pers. Relig., II. ix. The great gulf of unredeemed possibilities.

  Hence Unredeemedly adv.

1885.  Athenæum, 28 Feb., 276/3. If she had … one touch of refinement,… instead of being unredeemedly vulgar.