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/rɪdˈɛmpʃən/ /rɪdˈɛmʃən/ Listen

Redemption

noun

(theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil. Synonym: salvation.

Repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock).

The act of purchasing back something previously sold. Synonyms: buyback, repurchase.

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"Redemption" Quotes from Famous Books

... grievous trial like unto that which befell Daniel in the den of the lions. If I go upon yonder sinful platform before these hosts of Satan, it will be only as led by the Almighty, and that I may wrestle mightily in prayer for the redemption ...

— Prisoners of Chance - The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, - through His Love for a Lady of France • Randall Parrish

... if to any man, Heaven's gates might open; yet had he perished without shrift or sacrament, and I could never bear to be absent when masses were said for his soul's redemption. Nay, and I was fain to go to churches and chapels, inasmuch as I was secure there from the speech of man. All that life could give or ask of me, I had ceased to ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... sweet. But to this day, among all the Mater Dolorosas of Christianity, Cimabue's at Assisi is the noblest; nor did any painter after him add one link to the chain of thought with which he summed the creation of the earth, and preached its redemption. ...

— Mornings in Florence • John Ruskin

... blind destruction the solution of political and social evils. "I'm for votes for women, but I would prove my right to it by keeping law and helping others to keep it. God-like motherhood is the finest sphere for women, and the way to the redemption ...

— Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary • W. P. Livingstone

... the complete deliverance from the penalty, power, and all the consequences of sin; —— is used in the sense of the sacrificial work, whereby the redemption from the condemning power of the ...

— English Synonyms and Antonyms - With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions • James Champlin Fernald

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