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The one who buys you back from your worst decision, no refunds on theirs.
means Someone or something that rescues or saves another, especially by paying the price to free them from debt, wrongdoing, or ruin.
from From Latin redimere — 're-' (back) plus 'emere' (to buy or take) — literally 'to buy back.' The word first lived in the world of commerce and ransom: paying to recover a hostage, a pawned item, a slave's freedom. Passed through Old French 'redimer' into English, it kept its transactional bones even as it climbed into religious and moral language, where buying someone back from captivity became buying someone back from sin or ruin — the ledger just got cosmic.
- original sense
- someone who pays a debt to free another
- religious weight
- title for a savior figure, capital R required
- sports slang
- player who erases a career-defining failure
- etymology
- from Latin redimere, literally to buy back