redemption
noun
an act of atoning for guilt, a fault, or a mistake, or the state of having atoned.
redemptively
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a word derived from
redemption.
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a word derived from
redemptive.
Example Sentences
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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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
Writing in this paper in 2012, Mark Lawson put her cross-gender appeal down to the way “she deals sympathetically and redemptively with male fecklessness and helplessness”.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2020
A photo of a man at a diner is a carefully structured mélange of color and pattern, with a townscape refracted through a window and sprinkled, redemptively, with a confetti of light.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2019
Phil, in much the manner of his varied compatriots Dorothy Gale, Truman Burbank and Ebenezer Scrooge, redemptively learns the mighty power of an individual’s own actions and choices.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2014
It would be truer to think of them as returning redemptively to their roots.
From Time Magazine Archive
