redeemer

name

1. honorific title for Jesus Christ

noun

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

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.'”

   “But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums.”