redemptionary

English

Etymology

From redemption +‎ -ary.

Noun

redemptionary (plural redemptionaries)

1. One who is, or may be, redeemed; one who is set at liberty, or released from a bond, by paying compensation or fulfilling stipulated conditions.
   • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:

     […] be admitted in the said society, but as redemptionaries, which will be very chargeable

References

“redemptionary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.