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Redeeming

adjective

1.

Bringing about salvation or redemption from sin. Synonyms: redemptive, saving. "Redemptive (or redeeming) love"

2.

Compensating for some fault or defect. "His saving grace was his sense of humor"

Redeem

verb

(past & past part. redeemed; pres. part. redeeming)

1.

Save from sins. Synonyms: deliver, save.

2.

Restore the honor or worth of.

3.

To turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange.

4.

Exchange or buy back for money; under threat. Synonym: ransom.

5.

Pay off (loans or promissory notes). Synonym: pay off.

6.

Convert into cash; of commercial papers.

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"Redeeming" Quotes from Famous Books

... all, that old life was better than this new one. The troubles of her mother, her own young struggles for food and warmth, the woes of Mrs. Banks, had in them something nobler than she could find in the distresses of Christabel and Aunt Rose and Francis Sales, something redeeming them from the sordidness in which they were set. ...

— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG

... had some idea of joining his lot with his own people there. But he found them in a state of suffering destitution. They had been unfortunate in their choice of location, and were enduring an existence barer than the one they had left, without any of its redeeming features. Colin gave them all he had, and left them with promises of ...

— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... in the faces he met, he did not at first connect it with himself, but with the general bellicose excitement of the populace. Although the young Prince of Orange had rewarded their insurrectionary election of him to the Stadtholdership by redeeming them from the despair to which the French invasion and the English fleet had reduced them, although since his famous "I will die in the last ditch," Holland no longer strove to commit suicide by opening its own sluices, ...

— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... a cactus could not be developed that had no spines. Accordingly, he began his work, and already has accomplished results far greater than he had expected. Not only has he developed spineless cactus, thus redeeming millions of acres of desert land for the use of animals, but he has also developed scores of varieties that are pleasing to the taste of man. Some taste like the cantaloupe, others like the peach, and still others like the plum or pomegranate. Fortunately, they ripen at all ...

— Modern Americans - A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades • Chester Sanford

... said he, "that Mr. Darby would take these bonds at the store for groceries and things, and we might pay him interest, besides redeeming the bonds when ...

— What Might Have Been Expected • Frank R. Stockton

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