unredeemed

comparative more unredeemed · superlative most unredeemed

1. Not redeemed; not granted redemption or salvation; unsaved.

   The poet is more in sympathy with the tragic, waiting, unredeemed phase of things than with any transcendental promise.

   1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xix

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   “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?”

   1911, Stephen Leacock, “The Man in Asbestos: an Allegory of the Future”, in Nonsense Novels, Canadian edition, Montreal, Que.: Publishers’ Press, Limited, page 229

2. not comparableUnspent; not used in a purchase, and thus still usable.

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   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.

   1896 July 18, The Speaker: A Review of Politics, Letters, Science, and the Arts, volume XIV, London: […], page 53, column 2

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of unredeem