redemption
noun
an act of atoning for guilt, a fault, or a mistake, or the state of having atoned.
redemptively
-
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
It was a typically Grammy-like mix of the stodgy and the trying-to-be-relevant, notable mostly because Aguilera redemptively remembered all the words she'd been obliged to sing.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2011
Underlying all of Miller's thought is the conviction that if society is changed, man is redemptively altered and restored to respect, purpose and value.
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