redemptive
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- adjective
- /rɪˈdɛmp.tɪv/
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redentor
- The redemptive power of forgiveness can help heal broken relationships.
- redemptive power
- redemptive suffering
- redemptive possibility
She's saying, right, because the suffering is not redemptive, or if it is, it's not righteous, right?
- She's saying, right, because the suffering is not redemptive, or if it is, it's not righteous, right?
- They took some action towards making good on their bads or whatever, some redemptive thing.
- There is something redemptive and life giving about asking a better question.
- But if we look to the redemptive quality of being, having that gift of perception of separateness, it may be so that we can see beauty.
- So much better, so much better and, and and healthy and redemptive and positive and life giving.
Examples
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In urban settings, that innate ecological empathy is rechanneled; this redemptive character becomes instead the natural recycler.
Academic text (1995) -
Look, God develops this redemptive plan for the world, and divorce just tears at the heart of it.
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There is something redemptive and life giving about asking a better question.
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That there might be this opportunity to actually have that redemptive moment was huge.
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If there is a second marriage, it is often the experience of healing and redemptive love.
Academic text (2004) -
The new media here figure as a pathway to salvation, offering a redemptive transcendence of self.
Academic text (1997) -
But in the end, Horacio cannot bring himself to take advantage of La Maga's redemptive possibility.
Academic text (2001) -
Eileen Barrett suggests such a redemptive ending in her reading of the novel.
Fiction book (1993) -
The suffering bodies of Jesus' followers become redemptive when their suffering is undergone on behalf of others, as Christ's was.
Academic text (2001) -
In the liturgy, Jesus Christ's redemptive actions are not simply historical deeds but presently efficacious events.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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A quality that makes someone or something seem better despite faults
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That can save people, especially in a religious way
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That helps save someone in a spiritual way
About ideas or actions that make a person feel forgiven and like a better person
Making a person feel forgiven and better after a mistake
Bringing rescue from sin and spiritual harm
How Redemptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Redemptive comes from the same root as redeem, which originally meant 'to buy back', like paying to free someone from debt or trouble. So something redemptive helps 'save' or make a person or situation better.