redemption

[ US /ɹɪˈdɛmpʃən, ɹɪˈdɛmʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪdˈɛmpʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock)
  2. the act of purchasing back something previously sold
  3. (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
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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.
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