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redemptionist

redemptionist


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Redemptionist  \Re*demp"tion*ist\,  n.  (R.C.Ch.) 
  A  monk  of  an  order  founded  in  1197;  --  so  called  because  the 
  order  was  especially  devoted  to  the  redemption  of  Christians 
  held  in  captivity  by  the  Mohammedans.  Called  also 
  {Trinitarian}.