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Ransound, ppl. adj. [ME raunsoned, rawnsomyd (Prompt. Parv.).] Freed by means of a ransom, redeemed. —1533 Bell. Livy II 225/31.
The goddis … wald nocht suffir that Romanis suld leif as redemit or ransound pepil