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单词 redemptive
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redemptiveadj.

Brit. /rᵻˈdɛm(p)tɪv/, U.S. /rəˈdɛm(p)tɪv/, /riˈdɛm(p)tɪv/
Forms: late Middle English redemptif, 1600s– redemptive.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin redemptivus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin redemptivus tending to redeem (13th cent.; 14th cent. in a British source) < classical Latin redempt- , past participial stem of redimere redeem v. + -īvus -ive suffix. Compare Middle French redemptif (1478).
That tends to redeem or save; redeeming.In quot. c1429 figurative: healing.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [adjective] > causing
restoringa1398
savinga1400
redemptivec1429
safe-making1550
salvifical1581
redemptory1584
recovering1589
salvific1591
electing1673
c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 4982 Til a vesselle of bavme was likned thi chastest wombe, Redemptif bavme contenant Jhesu, Gods awen lombe.
1641 G. Abbot Vindiciæ Sabbathi 47 Christs cessation from redemptive actions.
1647 M. Hudson Divine Right Govt. Introd. sig. C Redemptive Divine Right is that which is grounded upon the will of God concerning the manifestation of his mercy in the preservation of Man-kind.
1721 Rome's Cabal 2 Tho' it [sc. the death of a pope] be allow'd by the Sacred College to have a redemptive force, yet it is limited to such Enormities only as are capable of Human Forgiveness.
1771 A. Meagher Popish Mass Celebrated Pref. p. xi The redemptive ransom is paid for all mankind, and therefore God requires no more of any man than according to his measure of knowledge.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 304 The Mystery itself—namely, the Redemptive Act, as the transcendant Cause of Salvation.
1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (1884) xii. 414 These silent and patient processes..are the early stages in the redemptive work.
1915 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 822/1 The Monenergists were possessed with the idea that the redemptive activity of the God-man emanated wholly and solely from His divine nature.
1948 New Life Dec. 15 Marx gives to the working-class a mission to fulfil; a redemptive mission; a messianic mission.
2002 E. White Fast Girls x. 199 The history these girls have seen is not a sanctioned or redemptive history. It is, rather, a dangerous and unsettling history.

Derivatives

reˈdemptively adv.
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1857 Harper's Mag. Nov. 777/2 The calculable forces that act redemptively on human affairs.
1956 Southeast Economist (Chicago) 30 Aug. 8/4 The responsibility..of the church to study these situations and to speak redemptively about them remains clear and certain.
2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 May (Arts section) 31 The importance of dreams and how..they can briefly and perhaps redemptively come true.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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