redemand

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verb

To demand the return of (someone or something).

First used 16th c.Scrabble 12

Meanings

verbredemand (third-person singular simple present redemands, present participle redemanding, simple past and past participle redemanded)

present singular third person redemands · participle present redemanding · participle past redemanded · past redemanded

  1. archaicTo demand the return of (someone or something).First known use 16th c.

    You come, sir knight, as I understand, in the name of the marquis of Vicenza, to re-demand the lady Isabella his daughter, who has been contracted in the face of holy church to my son […].

    1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section III
    1 more example

    When the unfortunate Queen would have sacrificed her jewels to liquidate the claims which pressed the most heavily upon her, she found the measure impossible, lest the King should redemand them as the property of the Crown; and she consequently soon saw herself reduced to the undignified expedient of subsisting upon the generosity of the powers from whom she had sought protection.

    1890, Julia Pardoe, The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 3 (of 3)
  2. transitiveTo demand again.First known use 16th c.
nounredemand (plural redemands)

plural redemands

  1. The repetition of a demand.
  2. A demand for the return of a thing.

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