redemptive

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adjective re·demp·tive \-ˈdem(p)-tiv\

Definition of redemptive

: of, relating to, or bringing about redemption redemptive suffering

Recent Examples of redemptive from the Web

Seth Smith and Manny Machado hit first-inning home runs to back a redemptive pitching performance by Alec Asher and help Baltimore beat the Boston Red Sox 3-2 Friday night.

— david ginsburg, courant.com, "Porcello Pulls It Together But Red Sox Fall To Orioles, 3-2", 3 June 2017
Seth Smith and Manny Machado hit first-inning home runs off Rick Porcello to back a redemptive pitching performance by Alec Asher and help the Baltimore Orioles beat the Boston Red Sox.

— ap, USA TODAY, "Baseball Capsules", 2 June 2017
The story of low-income, urban students of color has been told too often by white, middle-class people like me who are cast as main characters in pat, triumphant narratives endorsing the redemptive single story of teaching.

— anne beatty, The Atlantic, "Hollywood's Reductive Narratives About School", 30 May 2017
Though his biography seems, in retrospect, to follow a redemptive arc, his life from year to year was bitter.

— adam kirsch, The New Yorker, "Czeslaw Milosz’s Battle for Truth", 29 May 2017
Also recurring is the play’s common themes: the ravages of loneliness and the redemptive power of love.

— f. kathleen foley, latimes.com, "1950s tales of loneliness and redemption told with conviction in 'Separate Tables'", 26 May 2017

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15th Century