to find redemption
3
7.2
- phrasal verb
- /faɪnd rɪˈdɛmpʃən/
:
encontrar redención
- By helping others, she believed she could finally find redemption for her past mistakes.
- the last redemption
But eventually Brett found redemption and a life on the other side of criminality.
- But eventually Brett found redemption and a life on the other side of criminality.
- I think anybody in any culture who prays a prayer like that to the one true God, God will provide a way for them to find redemption.
Examples
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Eventually, as an adult, he finds redemption, or at least consolation, in his work:
Academic text (1991) -
Walt never found redemption on the island.
Blog text (4) -
Maybe the island was just a place where people could find redemption.
Blog text (4) -
That time in their life is most significant because they learned, grew, and found redemption.
Blog text (4) -
People can find redemption, sometimes after hitting bottom.
Blog text (31) -
The castaways found redemption with each other.
Blog text (4) -
Who admits his fault and seeks forgiveness... will find redemption.
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But eventually Brett found redemption and a life on the other side of criminality.
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He also sees his character finding redemption in self-criticism and in love.
Academic text (1998) -
And it's not that they look back on all the suffering, pain, and death that they endured on the island fondly, but that they understand that that was where they found redemption and truth.
Blog text (4)
Synonyms
26
6.2
Say or do something to show you are sorry and fix a wrong
Antonyms
How Redeemed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is a straightforward composition of 'find' (to obtain or recover) and 'redemption' (being saved or forgiven), so 'find redemption' = 'obtain forgiveness/salvation' is directly predictable from the constituents. This verb + noun collocation follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern (e.g. Spanish "encontrar la redención"), making it readily understandable to learners who know both words.
Etymology
Find redemption comes from old religious ideas of being 'bought back' or set free from sin. The verb find and the word redemption create the image of someone paying a debt to free a prisoner, so to find redemption now means 'to get forgiveness or be saved' after wrong actions.