redemptive

[ri-demp-tiv]

adjective

1. serving to redeem.

2. of, relating to, or centering on redemption or salvation.

   redemptive religions.

Other Word Forms

• redemptively adverb
• nonredemptive adjective
• unredemptive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of redemptive¹

First recorded in 1640–50; redempt(ion) + -ive

Example Sentences

He understood, as he sang in “Ring of Fire,” that love could be painful as well as pleasant and that either way it was redemptive.

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“There’s this language of the discarded thing. The language of transformation and redemption. This all feels very redemptive to me.”

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Some relationships do redemptively transform for the better and evolve into a much more nourishing and aligned version of however they existed before.

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There is no way to make the social revolution America is experiencing painless, but it is still in our power to make it redemptive.

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He will gain a rapturous following this week, coming in as a redemptive and all conquering hero of Augusta.

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