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Unredeemed

Unredeemed \Un`re*deemed"\, a. Not redeemed.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unredeemed

1540s, "unsaved;" 1805, "not balanced by any good quality," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of redeem (v.).\n

WordNet
unredeemed

adj. in danger of the eternal punishment of hell; "poor damned souls" [syn: cursed, damned, doomed, unsaved]

Usage examples of "unredeemed".

Protestants, slightly varying in the different sects, but generally agreeing that at death all redeemed souls pass instantly to heaven and all unredeemed souls to hell.

The old chap had bought it up on spec'--"de l'audace, toujours de l'audace," as he was so fond of saying--paid for it half in cash and half in promises, and then-- the thing had turned out empty, and left him with L20,000 worth of the old shares unredeemed.

Sometimes the soul of an unredeemed sinner is ripped apart to experience multiple levels of Hell.

Less attractive, indeed an unredeemed chore, was the marking of School Certificate (the examination then set for British secondary schools) which he undertook annually in the prewar years to earn extra money.

It was the exhilarating effect—upon a prisoner just escaped from the dungeon of his own heart—of breathing the wild, free atmosphere of an unredeemed, unchristianized, lawless region.