Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Redeeming; serving to redeem.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of something that is
redeeming ; being ofredemption or saving
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
- adjective of or relating to or resulting in redemption
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Examples
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"There's not what you call a redemptive arc—and Americans love their redemptive arc—but it isn't absolutely without hope, either."
A Drama of Vice and Men Lizzie Simon 2011
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Writing this book made me feel that I was using my own difficulty to make things easier for other people, and there was a certain redemptive value in that.
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Mine, The Bible is a record of the important events in redemptive history the creation of man is at the very beginning of this history what happened before is merely prologue.
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I don't know if I could necessarily call it redemptive.
May 2006 2006
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Christ Himself in His actual influence over this body and over each of its members; hence it is only occasionally that he recalls the redemptive power of Christ's Death.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Dr. Jackson's book is structured as a response to another theological work, Is God a White Racist? by William Jones, which argues that traditional black theodicy overprivileges the idea of redemptive suffering, and that by implication they create the idea that God favors whites.
Muti 2010
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Dr. Jackson's book is structured as a response to another theological work, Is God a White Racist? by William Jones, which argues that traditional black theodicy overprivileges the idea of redemptive suffering, and that by implication they create the idea that God favors whites.
Muti 2010
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Dr. Jackson's book is structured as a response to another theological work, Is God a White Racist? by William Jones, which argues that traditional black theodicy overprivileges the idea of redemptive suffering, and that by implication they create the idea that God favors whites.
Muti 2010
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The products are gorgeous, the prices are fantastic, and the business is committed to what I'd call redemptive engagement with the Indian communities and businesses it purchases from.
Sibboleth 2009
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In my spiritual journey into Catholic spirituality, I had come to understand the notion of redemptive suffering.
Latest Articles 2009
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