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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Redeeming; serving to redeem.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. of something that is redeeming; being of redemption or saving

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
  2. adj. of or relating to or resulting in redemption

Examples

  • “There's not what you call a redemptive arc—and Americans love their redemptive arc—but it isn't absolutely without hope, either.”

    The Wall Street Journal: A Drama of Vice and Men

  • “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.”

    Andrew Solomon - An interview with author

  • “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.”

    Alternative to Dembski's Theodicy?

  • “I don't know if I could necessarily call it redemptive.”

    May 2006

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “In my spiritual journey into Catholic spirituality, I had come to understand the notion of redemptive suffering.”

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  • ““So us being on the roof is some kind of redemptive state.””

    Fictionaut: Stars

  • “This isn't the kind of redemptive novel suited for one of those brisk publisher appendices entitled "Questions for Book Group Discussion.”

    NPR: In A Seaside Town, Hidden Desires Surface

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