[
US
/ɹɪˈdɛmpʃən, ɹɪˈdɛmʃən/
]
[ UK /ɹɪdˈɛmpʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪdˈɛmpʃən/ ]
NOUN
- repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock)
- the act of purchasing back something previously sold
- (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
How To Use redemption In A Sentence
- About 22 per cent of those targeted responded, said Ferguson, and the redemption on samples hit 80 per cent.
- Yeaah we were excited when we first heard about the Firefly fan flic – Browncoats: Redemption. Firefly Browncoats: Redemption Shows off Third Trailer for Firefly Fan Flic « Show Me SciFi
- Immediate pressure on peasant living standards was relieved by the abolition of redemption dues and restraint of the tax burden.
- Beginning in the earliest Christian community, redemption is understood as cosmic in scope.
- The red (or Greene) flag of Catholicism that Anderson is missing in FO's work is probably "redemption" ... there is none. Signature Elements
- Part of Goody's almost biblical redemption was that she admitted her faults. Times, Sunday Times
- For in opening their lives to the entire expanse of Greco-Arabic and Hebrew learning, the dictionally pure Jewish poets of Cordoba, Granada, and Saragossa carried out an act of profound, if paradoxical, cultural redemption. The Lost Jewish Culture
- The power of affection or love has its place because the world longs for redemption.
- They seem to know that in leaner and livelier form their courtroom dramas, geisha memoirs, and horse-whisperer romances would not be taken seriously, and that it is precisely the lack of genre-ish suspense that elevates them to the status of prize-worthy "tales of loss and redemption. A Reader's Manifesto
- Matsui finally gained some redemption in the fifth, singling home Williams from second after the Yankee centerfielder had doubled.
