rançon
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French rençon, raençon, inherited from Latin redemptiōnem. Doublet of rédemption.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rançon f (plural rançons)
- ransom
- (figurative) flipside, other side of the coin
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- D'ailleurs, Charles l'attendait; et déjà elle se sentait au coeur cette lâche docilité qui est, pour bien des femmes, comme le châtiment tout à la fois et la rançon de l'adultère.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “rançon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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