unredeemed
/ˌʌnɹidˈimd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.76 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not redeemed; not granted redemption or salvation; unsaved.
verb
simple past and past participle of unredeem
Example Sentences
- "“Asbestos, do you think that those jelly-bag Equalities out on the street there, with their ash-barrel suits, can be compared for one moment with our unredeemed, unreformed, heaven-created, hobble-skirted women of the twentieth century?”"
- "The poet is more in sympathy with the tragic, waiting, unredeemed phase of things than with any transcendental promise."
- "Its redeemability converts the redemptors into rent-chargers, and, according to an official report quoted in Mr. Dowell’s “History of Taxation in England,” ever since Pitt’s rearrangement the unredeemed amounts have been regarded as a fixed charge on properties, subject to which they have been bought and sold many times over."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English redeemed English unredeemed From un- + redeemed.
Inflected Forms
more unredeemed (comparative)
most unredeemed (superlative)