'Redemptive' definitions:
Definition of 'redemptive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of or relating to or resulting in redemption; "a redemptive theory about life"- E.K.Brown [syn: redemptive, redemptional, redemptory]
adjective
Bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love" [syn: redemptive, redeeming(a), saving(a)]
Definition of 'Redemptive'
From: GCIDE
- Redemptive \Re*demp"tive\ (-t?v), a. Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'redemptive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apologetic,
- ascetic,
- atoning,
- celestial,
- Christlike,
- Christly,
- 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