ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1554. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 415. If the said silver platte be … unranesomid or redemid of the owners.
1599. Sandys, Europæ Spec. (1605), X 4 b. They are charitable among them selves, leaving no poore vnrelieved, no prisoner vnransomed.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Hum. Lieut., II. iv. 1. Gent. Do you grieve, we are come off? Dem. Unransom’d, was it? 2 Gent. It was, Sir.
1669. Earl Orrery, Parthen., III. VI. 96. Giving me an unransomed Liberty.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, xxiv. 151. The Gods … say … that he still detains Amid his fleet … Unransom’d Hector.
1813. Scott, Rokeby, IV. vi. Safe and unransom’d [he] sent them home.
1877–9. Ruskin, St. Mark’s Rest, vii. § 80. The Norman chief sent them home unransomed.
