redemptivistadj.
/rᵻˈdɛm(p)tɪvɪst/, U.S. /rəˈdɛm(p)tɪvəst/, /riˈdɛm(p)tɪvəst/ That desires to redeem; characterized by redemptivism.
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1924 C. Mackenzie Heavenly Ladder xxiii. 289 You are obsessed by redemptivist phantoms... I perceive you the victim of an absurd idea that you have to save other people. Even your own God Jesus Christ made no attempt to do that.
1976 Jrnl. Amer. Acad. Relig. 44 675 In the present article the moral collapse of Christian symbolism and redemptivist allegations amidst and since the Holocaust is argued.
1996 Univ. Toronto Q. (Nexis) Mar. This redemptivist manoeuvre to find some heroic role for the humanities in contemporary reality..cannot ultimately succeed.
2006 S. B. Smith Reading Leo Strauss 11 The Zionism advocated by Strauss was not of the messianic or redemptivist kind.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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