Redemptive
adjective
Something that is successful in improving a bad situation or correcting a mistake.
Her redemptive work with troubled youth has made a significant difference in her community.
Often appears as...
- redemptive power
- redemptive work
adjective
Related to the Christian belief in being saved from sin.
The redemptive power of Christ is a key element in Christian belief.
Often appears as...
- redemptive sacrifice
- redemptive grace
Usage tips
Religious
adjective
Something that is successful in improving a bad situation or correcting a mistake.
Her redemptive work with troubled youth has made a significant difference in her community.
Often appears as...
- redemptive power
- redemptive work
adjective
Related to the Christian belief in being saved from sin.
The redemptive power of Christ is a key element in Christian belief.
Often appears as...
- redemptive sacrifice
- redemptive grace
Usage tips
Religious
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Change
The word 'redemptive' often implies a positive transformation or recovery from something negative.
Her career took a redemptive turn after the new project's success.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Instant
'Redemptive' suggests a process, not a sudden event. It involves steady efforts to make things better.
His redemptive journey from addiction to sobriety inspired many.
Pro Tip 3/3Error Correction
When using 'redemptive', it may reference fixing past mistakes or improving after failure.
He viewed the community service as a redemptive step after his misdeeds.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Change
The word 'redemptive' often implies a positive transformation or recovery from something negative.
Her career took a redemptive turn after the new project's success.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Instant
'Redemptive' suggests a process, not a sudden event. It involves steady efforts to make things better.
His redemptive journey from addiction to sobriety inspired many.
Pro Tip 3/3Error Correction
When using 'redemptive', it may reference fixing past mistakes or improving after failure.
He viewed the community service as a redemptive step after his misdeeds.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Change
The word 'redemptive' often implies a positive transformation or recovery from something negative.
Her career took a redemptive turn after the new project's success.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Instant
'Redemptive' suggests a process, not a sudden event. It involves steady efforts to make things better.
His redemptive journey from addiction to sobriety inspired many.
Pro Tip 3/3Error Correction
When using 'redemptive', it may reference fixing past mistakes or improving after failure.
He viewed the community service as a redemptive step after his misdeeds.
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Video examples
Wade Davis: Cultures at...
The pain of Tibet can be impossible to bear, but the redemptive spirit of the people is something to behold. And in the end, then, it really comes down to a do we want to live in a monochromatic world of monotony or do we want to embrace a polychromatic world of diversity?
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Facing Fear in the Wild...
to be healing and redemptive and transformative to me and I knew that I needed to do it alone and so I was I had sort of worked myself I guess into that place of necessary you know experience encouraged to say I could do it alone
Video examples
Wade Davis: Cultures at...
The pain of Tibet can be impossible to bear, but the redemptive spirit of the people is something to behold. And in the end, then, it really comes down to a do we want to live in a monochromatic world of monotony or do we want to embrace a polychromatic world of diversity?
Video examples
Facing Fear in the Wild...
to be healing and redemptive and transformative to me and I knew that I needed to do it alone and so I was I had sort of worked myself I guess into that place of necessary you know experience encouraged to say I could do it alone
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Quote examples
Nick Cave
Australian Musician
What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn't wash with me. I've been there and things don't work out that way.
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Rob Bell
American Author
The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.
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Ted Dekker
Indonesian Author
It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Leader
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
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Colin Morgan
Irish Actor
Most of the characters I'm drawn to, as an actor, are ones that are quite intensely lonely and a bit lost and are looking for some kind of redemptive answer.
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John Ortberg
American Clergyman
The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.
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Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
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David Foster Wallace
American Writer
This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.
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Jim Caviezel
American Actor
Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.
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Shelby Steele
American Author
Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.
Quote examples
Nick Cave
Australian Musician
What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn't wash with me. I've been there and things don't work out that way.
Quote examples
Rob Bell
American Author
The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.
Quote examples
Ted Dekker
Indonesian Author
It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
Quote examples
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Leader
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Quote examples
Colin Morgan
Irish Actor
Most of the characters I'm drawn to, as an actor, are ones that are quite intensely lonely and a bit lost and are looking for some kind of redemptive answer.
Quote examples
John Ortberg
American Clergyman
The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.
Quote examples
Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
Quote examples
David Foster Wallace
American Writer
This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.
Quote examples
Jim Caviezel
American Actor
Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.
Quote examples
Shelby Steele
American Author
Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.
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