Word Study
redemption |
redemptional |
redemptionary |
redemptioner |
redemptionist |
redemptive
| redemptorist
| redemptory
| redempture
| redented
| redeploy
redemptive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective redemptive has 2 senses
- redemptive(a = adj.pert) redemptional, redemptory - of or relating to or resulting in redemption; "a redemptive theory about life" Derived form verb redeem1
- redemptive(s = adj.all) redeeming, saving - bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love" Derived form verb redeem1
CIDE DICTIONARY
redemptive, a.
Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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
For further exploring for "redemptive" in Webster Dictionary Online
