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 his friends.
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
To which it is answered, “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death.”
From True Christianity by Johann Arndt
He replied, "O accursed, take this man and hang him in Ala al-Din's stead; for he is innocent and we will ransom him with this fellow, even as Abraham ransomed Ishmael with the ram."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
“Ask the young man,” commanded one of them, “if he is sure the merchant ‘For-God’s-sake-bias’ will ransom you all?”
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
