redemptive
Americanadjective
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serving to redeem.
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of, relating to, or centering on redemption or salvation.
redemptive religions.
Other Word Forms
- nonredemptive adjective
- redemptively adverb
- unredemptive adjective
Etymology
Origin of redemptive
First recorded in 1640–50; redempt(ion) + -ive
Example Sentences
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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.
“There’s this language of the discarded thing. The language of transformation and redemption. This all feels very redemptive to me.”
From Los Angeles Times
Some relationships do redemptively transform for the better and evolve into a much more nourishing and aligned version of however they existed before.
From Los Angeles Times
There is no way to make the social revolution America is experiencing painless, but it is still in our power to make it redemptive.
From Salon
He will gain a rapturous following this week, coming in as a redemptive and all conquering hero of Augusta.
From BBC
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