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redemptive

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re·demp·tion  (r-dmpshn)
n.
1. The act of redeeming or the condition of having been redeemed.
2. Recovery of something pawned or mortgaged.
3. The payment of an obligation, as a government's payment of the value of its bonds.
4. Deliverance upon payment of ransom; rescue.
5. Christianity Salvation from sin through Jesus's sacrifice.

[Middle English redempcioun, from Old French redemption, from Latin redmpti, redmptin-, from redmptus, past participle of redimere, to redeem; see redeem.]

re·demption·al, re·demptive, re·dempto·ry (-t-r) adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.redemptive - of or relating to or resulting in redemption; "a redemptive theory about life"- E.K.Brown
2.redemptive - bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love"
good - morally admirable
Translations
redemptive [rɪˈdemptɪv] ADJredentor
redemptive
adj (Rel) → erlösend, rettend


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There is no institution for whose history I have a deeper admiration; but I cannot honestly be ordained her minister, as my brothers are, while she refuses to liberate her mind from an untenable redemptive theolarty.
He believed that some of the first steps in the necessary redemptive process must be the education of the poor and a return to what he conceived (certainly with much exaggeration) to have been the conditions of medieval labor, when each craftsman was not a mere machine but an intelligent and original artistic creator; but the underlying essential was to free industry from the spirit of selfish money-getting and permeate it with Christian sympathy and respect for man as man.
 
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