redemptive

adjective

re·demp·tive ri-ˈdem(p)-tiv

: of, relating to, or bringing about redemption

redemptive suffering

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The film plays like what those who don’t dream horrors would call a living dream—a secularly redemptive vision of love and solidarity. —

Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025 The Carolina Panthers have a starting quarterback heading into the 2025 season in Bryce Young — who punctuated a redemptive late-season resurgence with a five-touchdown season finale. —

Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2025 Are his designs intended to be commemorative or sardonic, redemptive or oppressive? —

Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2025 Mariko starts out the series in limbo, the daughter of a disgraced samurai who wants to honor her family’s memory by ritual suicide but is denied a redemptive death by her bitter husband, Buntaro (Shinnosuke Abe), to whom she’s bound by societal structure. —

Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for redemptive