Redemptive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Redemptive \Re*demp"tive\ (-t?v), a.
     Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive
     work of Christ.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  redemptive
       adj 1: of or relating to or resulting in redemption; "a redemptive
              theory about life"- E.K.Brown [syn: {redemptional}, {redemptory}]
       2: bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving
          faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love" [syn: {redeeming(a)},
           {saving(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "redemptive":
     Christlike, Christly, apologetic, ascetic, atoning, celestial,
     cleansing, compensational, compensatory, divine, empyrean,
     expiatory, godlike, godly, heavenly, incarnate, incarnated,
     indemnificatory, intercessional, intercessive, lustral,
     lustrational, lustrative, made flesh, mediative, mediatory,
     penitential, piacular, propitiative, propitiatory, purgative,
     purgatorial, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming,
     redemptional, redressing, reparative, reparatory, repentant,
     repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, restorative,
     retributive, reversional, reversionary, revertible, righting,
     salvational, satisfactional, self-existent, squaring, superhuman,
     supernatural, transcendent