redeeming
/rɪˈdiːmɪŋ
/adjective
1Compensating for someone’s or something’s faults; compensatory: tuneless dirges with few redeeming features a quite dreadful man, without a single redeeming quality...
- I was pleasantly surprised to see him shown in such a spiritually redeeming light.
- The worst movies of all time have absolutely no redeeming qualities.
- He was spectacularly ugly, with not a redeeming physical feature.
2Able to save people from sin, error, or evil: the transforming power of God’s redeeming grace...
- For a few minutes, without her waking, we rebuked the source of the nightmares, praising God for the redeeming blood.
- Jerusalem's special calling was to be "a light to the nations," a witness to God's redeeming will.
- Christ shares both expressions in his face of suffering, whilst He opens the wound in his side to offer the redeeming blood.
- Ahal-Teke
- Ahal-Tekke
- aha moment
- (a) hang of (a)
- a hard nut to crack
- a hard (or tough) act to follow
- a hard (or tough) row to hoe
- Aharonov–Bohm
- ahchoo
- ahead
- ahead of
- ahead of one's (or its) time
- ahead of (or behind) schedule
- ahead of (or behind) the curve
- ahead of (or behind) the game
- ahead of time
- a head start
- aheap
- a heartbeat (away) from
- aheight
- a-height
- a helping hand
- ahem
- ahermatypic
- Ahern, Bertie