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Definition of "redemptioner" []

  • A colonial emigrant from Europe to America who paid for the voyage by serving for a specified period as a bondservant. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "redemptioner" in a sentence
  • "Though Clate Wellford and the other coal miners never heard the word redemptioner and indent, they were not unlike those pioneer victims of unscrupulous subordinates."
  • "No taint was apparently attached to it, and many a worthy family had a "redemptioner" for its first"
  • "Brown, a fellow "redemptioner", and with their six children all drifted into Protestantism."