Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Acting to save someone from sin, error, or evil; having the power to redeem: Describes something that brings about salvation or delivers someone from a negative state.
   • Relating to the act of redemption: Pertaining to the action of being saved or freed from a burdensome or flawed condition.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The film tells a powerful story of redemptive love and forgiveness.
  • Many found his final, selfless act to be redemptive, making up for his past mistakes.
  • She spoke of her faith as a redemptive force in her life.

Advanced Usage

• "redemptive power": The capacity to save, heal, or restore.
  • Artists often speak of the redemptive power of creative expression.
• "redemptive narrative/arc": A story structure where a character overcomes flaws or past wrongs to achieve moral salvation or personal transformation.
  • The protagonist's journey follows a classic redemptive arc.

Variants and Related Words

• Redeem (verb): To save, to make up for, to recover ownership of.
  • He sought to redeem his reputation through hard work.
• Redemption (noun): The act of redeeming or the state of being redeemed.
  • She found redemption in helping others.
• Redeeming (adjective): Compensating for faults; a synonym often used in "redeeming quality."
  • His honesty was his one redeeming feature.

Synonyms

• Saving: Rescuing from harm or sin.
• Delivering: Freeing from a negative situation.
• Restorative: Having the ability to restore health or well-being.

Related Phrases

• Redemptive sacrifice: A sacrifice made to save or redeem others.
  • The story centers on the hero's redemptive sacrifice.

Adjective

1. bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
   • saving faith
   • redemptive (or redeeming) love
2. of or relating to or resulting in redemption
   • a redemptive theory about life- E.K.Brown