redemptive

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It's been a long time since we've seen Jenna do something redemptive -- and I'd settle for anything not strenuously vacant and narcissistic.

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  1. Redeeming; serving to redeem. The redemptive and the completive work of Messiah. Schaff, Hist. Christ. Church, I. § 83.

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  • Animated movie Doctor Strange follows a redemptive-quest plot. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#3
  • As contemptuous of the idea of redemptive love as so many of his plays would have us believe? —  WorldsEnough ;Time
  • The scope of the redemptive, reconciling, shalom promoting effects of the cross are universal. —  Creation Project
  • Pastor Bill got a little carried away when he began contemplating the redemptive-historical significance of Noah's Ark … —  purgatorio
  • No redemptive, just, honourable or worthwhile politically transformatory objectives can be met, or even invoked, by attacking a mass transit railway station, a restaurant, a hotel or a hospital. —  altmuslim
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  1. from Latin redemptus, past participle of redimere, redeem: see redeem.
 

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