单词 | redemptory |
释义 | redemptoryadj. Of, relating to, or causing redemption; redemptive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > [adjective] > relating to buying back or exchange redemptory1584 redemptionary1623 see-safe1926 buy-back1954 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [adjective] > causing restoringa1398 savinga1400 redemptivec1429 safe-making1550 salvifical1581 redemptory1584 recovering1589 salvific1591 electing1673 1584 J. Hudson Serm. Paules Crosse B3v What other can we iudge..of their preparatiue meritorious, satisfactory, redemptory, and supererogatory works? 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades i. 94 Till to her loved sire The black-ey'd damsell be resign'd; no redemtorie hire Tooke for her freedome. 1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 61 That redemptory & absolut sacrifice, which was to be offred but once. 1675 T. Brooks Golden Key 371 Λύτρον signifies a Redemptory price, a valuable rate. 1723 J. Reynolds Inq. State & Œcon. Angelical Worlds xvi. 23 We find the happy Angels actually employed in such Worship, as recognizes the Son of God, in his mediatory, redemptory Office. ?1785 F. Spilsbury Power Gold Displayed 6 Man may stile it a medicine act, but I call it a redemptory act—What says the act? pay a tribute, or no medicine. 1870 O. Perinchief Serm. Preached Memorial Church, Baltimore 56 God's plan is, not a new root, or new trunk, or new branch, but a new life sent through root and trunk and branch, spreading out into leaf and bloom and fruit. It is redemptory—it is quickening. 1886 H. James Bostonians III. iii. xxxvii. 126 A woman could live on persistently, clinging to a great, vivifying, redemptory idea. 1906 D. A. Huebsch tr. O. D. D. Pfleiderer Christian Origins ii. 172 The heavenly spirit-being which appears in Buddha and other redemptory personages is designated as ‘the great man’. 1950 Jrnl. Cuneiform Stud. 4 211 The Anunnaki make Inanna's release from the nether world conditional upon her supplying a redemptory substitute. 1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Dec. 16/1 Not the gentle, redemptory Marian aspect of ewiges weibliches Goethe has in mind but its witch-like alter ego. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1584 |
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