ransom
noun
the redemption of a prisoner or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
will ransom
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future tenseof ransom.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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One of the young fellows you see here has an uncle—a rich merchant in Mogador, who will ransom not only him, but all of his friends.
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
One of the young fellows you see here has an uncle, a rich merchant in Mogador, who will ransom not only him, but all his friends.
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
If there has not been means in the temple treasury of his city, the state will ransom him.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
The stern king's men good offers make, If Svein will ransom for them take; Too few to fight, they boldly say Unequal force makes them give way.
From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
O death, saith Christ, I will have them; O grave, I will make thee let them go; I will ransom them from the power of the grave, I will redeem them from death.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan
