Redeemer

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    honorific title for Jesus Christ
Noun
  1. 1
    One who redeems; one who provides redemption.

    "However there is little doubt that Virgil did - in that very sad age of the world, an age of "misery and massacre," and in common with thousands of others - look for the coming of a great 'redeemer.'"

  2. 2
    someone who redeems or buys back (promissory notes or merchandise or commercial paper etc.) wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English redemer, redemar, equivalent to redeem + -er.

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