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Bringing about salvation
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redeeming
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vb. (present participle of redeem English)
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adj. bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love" [syn: redemptive , redeeming(a) , saving(a) ] compensating for some fault or defect; "the redeeming feature of the plan is its simplicity"; "his saving ...
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Redeem \Re*deem"\ (r?*d?m"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Redeemed . (-d?md"); p. pr. & vb. n. Redeeming .] [F. r['e]dimer, L. redimere; pref. red-, re- re- + emere, emptum, to buy, originally, to take, cf. OIr. em (in comp.), Lith. imti. Cf. Assume , Consume ...
Usage examples of redeeming.
The scenery, however, was beautiful, the weather so perfect, and he enjoyed his rambles among the hills and his excursions on the water so thoroughly that he was already growing slightly forgetful of his purpose and satisfied that he could enjoy himself a few weeks without the zest of artistically redeeming the face of Ida Mayhew.
America, which is usually portrayed as an oppressive, racist, sexist, homophobic nation with few redeeming qualities.
She chastised herself for being so persnickety when he did, in fact, have so many redeeming qualities, and attributed it to premarital jitters.
Heindral by this action from outside, the leader of the Castellans demonstrated a little redeeming wisdom by declining to issue an order for the precautionary levying of the militia, on the grounds that it would be both provocative and ineffective.
The only redeeming feature, he thought vindictively, as he remembered what Roland Trevis had said about the cost of musical productions, was the fact that the new numbers were undoubtedly better than those which his collaborator had originally supplied.
Yet in the midst of a literature professedly false, and which paints in fascinating colors the various phases of unrepented vice and crime, without the redeeming shadows of honor and Christian morality, our little volume must fall a welcome sunbeam.
Or the crown prince might fall truly, madly, deeply in love with a shallow eighteen-year-old ditz whose one redeeming feature is that she plays the violin, getting you off the hook.
It was not until she knew the soutar, however, that at length she understood the tireless redeeming of the Father, who had sent men blind and stupid and illconditioned, into a world where they had to learn almost everything.
On they passed, troop after troop, banners waving, spears glancing, plumes dancing, in long perspective--a host composed of different nations, complexions, languages, arms, and appearances, but all fired, for the time, with the holy yet romantic purpose of rescuing the distressed daughter of Zion from her thraldom, and redeeming the sacred earth, which more than mortal had trodden, from the yoke of the unbelieving pagan.
The monster carries all these jewels to the pawnbrokers on Tien-Tsi Street, and then has the cruelty to refuse her the tickets, so that she may have a chance of redeeming her treasures.
He kept wanting to see some redeeming thing about the punkers, even as he fought them.
The only redeeming feature in the young man's character was that he had a mortal hatred of all kinds of play.
He anoints Lysander's eyes with the redeeming juice: "True delight" in Hermia will return to him.
Her acrimony was therefore the more memorable, and Aramina, as well as her surviving brother and sister, knew Fax as the villain, despoiler, and tyrant, possessed of no single redeeming virtue.
We lost it, and no amount of objecting will resurrect the men who died, without redeeming anything, on calvaries like Hamburger Hill and the Rockpile.