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redemptive

[ UK /ɹɪdˈɛmptɪv/ ]
[ US /ɹɪˈdɛmptɪv, ɹɪˈdɛmtɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
    saving faith
    redemptive (or redeeming) love
  2. of or relating to or resulting in redemption
    a redemptive theory about life

How To Use redemptive In A Sentence

  • We lift high the matzah, the bread of affliction, for all to see; we taste the painful maror to remind us of embittered lives and oppressive work; we drink four cups of redemptive wine. Ari Hart: Food Justice At Your Seder Table
  • The book is also about love - and its redemptive power.
  • The man's imagination may not be redemptive, but it can at least be epical.
  • Jung speaks in Psyche and Symbol of the ` redemptive significance" of `uniting symbols. RIDDLE ME THIS
  • Father Neuhaus unmasks the fallacy by revealing a third category: those who know that some who don't hear about Christ won't go to hell, yet this salvation is still through the redemptive work of Christ.
  • The Phrygian priests of the Great Mother openly opposed their celebration of the vernal equinox to the Christian Easter, and attributed to the blood shed in the taurobolium the redemptive power of the blood of the divine The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
  • I wanted him to know the comfort and consolation of Christ's redemptive love.
  • A retreat into a redemptive enclave of winkingly open-minded post-Marxist scamps, it's nearly pristine in its high-minded tomfoolery.
  • So set your body clock for Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me, the redemptive tale of a swaggering cock of a drink-driving luxury car dealer forced to do community service at a drop-in centre for teenagers with behavioural and social problems. Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
  • So this limpid, adorable film is also a tough, matter-of-fact portrait of the everyday, not a sentimental, redemptive whitewash.
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