Vocabulary : Ransom to Ranterism

Ransom : The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom. ;; The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit. ;; A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment. ;; To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy. ;; To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
Ransomable : Such as can be ransomed.
Ransomed : of Ransom
Ransomer : One who ransoms or redeems.
Ransoming : of Ransom

Ransomless : Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.
Rant : To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher. ;; High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.
Ranted : of Rant
Ranter : A noisy talker; a raving declaimer. ;; One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker. ;; One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
Ranterism : The practice or tenets of the Ranters.

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