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Definition of Redemptory
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resulting in redemption. "A redemptive theory about life"
Partainyms: Redemption, Redemption, Redemption
Derivative terms: Redemption, Redeem, Redeem
Definition of Redemptory
1. a. Paid for ransom; serving to redeem.
Definition of Redemptory
1. Adjective. Paid as ransom; serving to redeem. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Redemptory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Redemptory
Literary usage of Redemptory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Christian Theology by Milton Valentine (1906)
"In Christianity alone He is presented as historically carrying forward for man
a course of redemptory activity, whose manifestation and record form ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... Christ in Heaven does not and cannot serve to accumulate fresh redemptory
merits and to assume new objective value; it simply stamps into current coin, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Without the unswerving acceptance of certain truths (eg, the Messiahship, the
Divinity of Christ, the redemptory character of Christ's death, ..."
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