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Redemar, Rademar, n. Also: redeym-, -deem-, -dim- and -e(i)r, -air, -are. [Late ME (1432–50) and e.m.E. redemer, Redem(e v.] One who redeems. a. God or Christ, regarded as saving man from sin. b. Appositive in partie redemer, a person seeking to redeem lands from a bond of wadset.a. c1450 Cr. Deyng (S.T.S.) 86.
Thai ar nocht worthy to have him to thare … rademar ?a1500 Dewoit Exerc. 80.
King and redemar of mankind c1500-c1512 Dunb. (O.U.P.) 15/2.
My king, my lord, and my redemer [M. redeymar] sueit 1533 Gau 4/32.
The lord God our maker and redemar Ib. 32/31.
Redemer Arundel MS 283/149.
Redemeir of the warld 15.. Dunb. App. xi 20.
Redimar 1561 Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 177 (G).
Redemair 1602 Three Reformers 161.
Our onely redeemer 1622-6 Bisset II 278/27.
Redemare Ib. 279/7.
Redimerb. c1575 Balfour Pract. 651.
Preceptis of sasine of landis redemit, quhilkis wer annalȝeit to be haldin of the king, … past upon the supplicatioun of the partie redemer