redemptor

Etymology

From Middle English redemptor, redemptoure, from Old French redemptor, from Latin redēmptor.

redemptor means one who redeems (especially used of Jesus). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why “redemptor” is a great word

REDEMPTOR — [Noun] One who redeems, especially a title for Jesus Christ as the savior of humanity. From Middle English redemptor, redemptoure, from Old French redemptor, from Latin redēmptor ("a buyer back, a redeemer"), from redimere ("to buy back, redeem"). Unlike "redeemer," which carries a plainer, vernacular tone, or "savior," which implies deliverance from any peril, redemptor retains the precise, transactional weight of a debt paid in full. It is the echo of coin on a slaver's table, the legal finality of a ledger stamped "satisfied," and the profound silence after an account is balanced to zero. The word itself is a relic of a cosmology where salvation was a purchase, not a gift.

noun

One who redeems (especially used of Jesus).“Ryght swet lady and sacred mayden mother of the savyour and redemptor Jesu Chryst what syne myght I have commysed towarde thy dere sonne Jesu Christ that .vii. dogges ben yssued out of my bodi wherbi I have lost the love of my husband the moste pleasaunt and the best that ever woman might have chosen.”