redemption
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7.4
- noun
- /rɪˈdɛmpʃən/
- Specialized
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redención
- Why work with those on death row when redemption is so unlikely?
- salvation and redemption
- redemption from sin
- need for redemption
I thought the only pathway to redemption in my story was restoration.
- I thought the only pathway to redemption in my story was restoration.
- And I believe that forgiveness and I believe that redemption are beautiful things.
- Their soul is begging for the redemption their ego can't even face.
- And so this is my chance, like my chance at redemption after six years.
- entered the world from a tree, now redemption comes to a tree where Eve fell.
- God created marriage for companionship, procreation, and redemption to be made holy.
- Why work with those on death row when redemption is so unlikely?
- And so it's like you went past the point of redemption for me.
- If I pray every night for his forgiveness and, and, and, and for redemption, He will.
- And so I think she saw in that some sort of redemption.
- So does Kanye have a road to redemption?
- He's focusing on his work of redemption, bringing people free from their sin and evil.
- Our wounds are looking for redemption unless they're healed.
- Blessings to Anita Hill and her redemption after decades.
- I think he, I hope that he's perfecting the perfect redemption act.
- I need redemption save from the blood.
- Because all I ever have redemption songs.
Examples
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Perhaps that can provide some redemption for past sins.
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Mine has always been a story of redemption, of the necessary comeback.
Fiction book (1997) -
And so this is my chance, like my chance at redemption after six years.
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The day of redemption is at hand!
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What, am I supposed to find some kind of redemption in the eyes of god?
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God is still in the business of redemption.
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And may you find your redemption.
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And they were trying to find a sense of redemption and atonement through that work.
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Look up, lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh.
Academic text (2017) -
Many believe that through faith, one can achieve redemption from their past mistakes.
Synonyms
333
2.2
An act of letting go of anger toward someone after they hurt you
145
7.9
Being saved from sin and its punishment in a religion
24
7.4
Being rescued from danger or harm
3
7.6
Forgiving a sin or debt, often declared by a priest
1
6.6
Help that brings a person back to good behaviour after doing wrong
1
9.4
A priest forgives a person's sins after they confess
Antonyms
How Restored
- Specialized
119
7.4
83
4.7
1
6.6
- Specialized
108
4.8
248
2.1
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Redemption comes from the Latin parts re- ('again') and emere ('to buy'), so it originally meant 'to buy back'. In Christianity, this idea became a strong image: to be 'bought back' from sin by a saviour, which is why redemption means being saved or freed.