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Definition of redemption:

  • (noun) (Christianity) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
  • (noun) repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock)
  • (noun) the act of purchasing back something previously sold

Sentence Examples:

Till that objective is obtained redemption is not complete and the blood of the cross is not justified.

Gerry, till towards the close of the business he introduced a motion respecting the redemption of paper money.

This is the act through which, in the secret mystery of creation, the redemption of Prometheus is achieved.

The names of all who suffer and are still are registered on high for full solace and redemption.

The plan of redemption contains no express covenant to pardon one who rejects it with scorn and hatred.

On the ground of the great redemption Nehemiah advances to the special petition with which his prayer closes.

Here is the basis not only of creation but of new creation, including miracle, incarnation, resurrection, regeneration, redemption.

Woman is the keeper of redemption; it is her work to lead man back to the gate of his being.

I saw that there was no redemption in this world for a woman whose innocence has been sacrificed.

"By his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us".

How many ministers possess, for instance, a scholarly knowledge of human nature or of the deeper aspects of redemption?

Does he not see the dark fate of some, the striving and rising hope of others, the redemption also?

The Quakers therefore believe Abraham to have experienced in a very high degree the power of this inward redemption.

It was the day of their redemption from all their trials and persecutions, and doubts and fears.

He knew now that Braxton Wyatt, despite his youth, was lost beyond redemption to honor and truth.

If, however, she had met with an early death, her mother's lot would have lacked its redemption.

You are going to try and redeem the rich, or, at least, to show them the way of redemption.

Our commercial monopoly exists no longer; and thousands of our manufacturers are starving or seeking redemption in distant lands.

Redemption must be known as an accomplished fact, ere there can be any just or full perception of responsibility.

Hereafter I hope you will not think of Yankees as all being bad, and beyond the pale of redemption.

Indeed, both forgiveness and renewal look to this as the goal to which redemption is to bring its subjects.

The mere money for this particular redemption neither has been, nor is, an object with anybody here.

Nevertheless, what our primitive poet meant by the Fall and the Redemption was probably something entirely different.

It is much to be feared that the three first described gentlemen are all of them clear past redemption.

How wondrous, for instance, is the scheme of redemption as unfolded to us in the Epistle to the Romans!

It seemed to be lost, without hope of redemption, and already it had been threatened with the extreme of severity.

They were willing to pay so much for the redemption of the bonds given by him, the captain.

The price that she must pay for the redemption of society is heavy because of her own neglect.

With him all things are possible; he deals with all, even with that which is almost beyond redemption.

Where is there any ample redemption, any glorious assertion of the mind, in these sad, gloomy, hopeless facts?

He came, too, as he and his apostles ever taught, to carry out the plan of redemption begun in them.

The Presbyterians have too often limited redemption by their doctrine of election; the Bible knows no such limitation.

His bedroom was religiously fitted up; the symbol of redemption hung constantly over the head of his bed.

This story overlooks the legal aspects of redemption, but it makes beautifully clear the experiential aspects of salvation.

He knew and felt that he was on a grander theme, and that Redemption was greater than Creation.

In this case, however, it needs to keep a reserve in order to meet demands for the redemption of notes.

From now on she must fight Elijah and alone, fight for her honor and his redemption if possible.

You have done well to stop a comedy which ought to have been damned beyond redemption on the first night.

Such forgiveness leads to that full deliverance from the power of darkness, which is the completion of redemption.

The cause I have at heart is the world's redemption; that, too, is the cause I believe you, too, have at heart.

Indeed, in itself it is obviously insufficient; it will hardly explain the idea of redemption in the religion of Paul.

Schneider were to set himself in real earnest to wipe out the recollection of Lancaster by the redemption of Barrow?

It is remarkable that this second article of the Creed says nothing about "redemption," which forms its heading.

If our souls are redeemed and renewed by obedience and faith, why not secure also the redemption of our bodies?

None of the new bonds were to be subject to drawing or to compulsory redemption prior to their regular maturity.

They intended nothing less than the redemption of the world; their Utopian City shone upon no distant hill.

Regular transportation, at the expense of the Government, is provided by express for the redemption of all currency.

Had he had any, what fitter use for honor than to sacrifice it for the redemption of a wife?

The publicity of Big School was the only redemption of such a bear-garden, but that was a good feature.

In 1775 Methodist influence appeared in the contention of two of the apostles and Jeremiah Walker for universal redemption.

We are not to believe in them in spite of the plan of redemption; but, because of the plan of redemption.

Let us learn from our misfortunes the anguish of guilt, but let us learn also the mercy of redemption.

Man enters on his redemption only when he bows the knee to Him who was raised above all heavens.

It is a bill of exchange written upon solid and durable material, and carrying with it its own redemption.

The light of redemption now begins to beam upon me, flooding my soul with its bright rays of hope.

I believe in that redemption which knowledge and principle combined bring to the soul that has slumbered in darkness.

It treats, first, of the occasion of redemption, that is, the fall of Adam; secondly, of the redemption itself.

No time can bar the redemption of a pledge, whenever the engagement for which it was given is fulfilled.

The voluntary death by which a man puts an end to intolerable suffering is really an act of redemption.

Between redemption from the power of death and salvation in the Kingdom of Heaven there is a vital difference.

We come to you now and ask that, in redemption of your promise, you give us homes in that Western wilderness.

A promise of sovereign kindness, connected with the redemption of himself, and of the world, was made to him.

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.

His work of redemption will be accomplished when he learns to moderate his passions and to limit his desires.

Among all the political achievements of our century, none has more of noble charm than the redemption of Italy.

In my writings I have recommended the study of the civic virtues, without which there can be no redemption.

I have taken the case of Saul to show how such marvels of redemption may be effected in a future life.

No preacher therein is so eloquent as their marble silence; for they reveal in their countenances the mystery of Redemption.

He rose into heaven to demonstrate and visibly exhibit the redemption of men from the under world doom of sinners.

That he had accomplished her redemption he did not dare to believe, but at least he had rendered it possible.

We remark here that it is a redemption man achieves by his own efforts, without any outward prop or aid.

Perhaps this appeal was the last cry of her good angel, pleading against the devils for her redemption.

A reader of the Missionary, noticing the gift, has kindly sent us more than double its market value in redemption.

Through all his excitement he realized that if he was left in darkness he was lost beyond hope of redemption.

She was alone when she effected the salvation of the world, and conceived the Redemption of the universe.

How sweet then is the name of a Savior, in whom is the joyful sound of a deliverance and redemption!

When share purchase did not suffice, redemption for such cash payments as could be obtained was resorted to.

I tread the darkness of the universe alone, and I peril my redemption by yielding to this love of earth.

They could issue no more bills of credit; provision therefore had to be made for the redemption of those outstanding.

He had made a sacrifice to no purpose, and was now bound hand and foot beyond the hope of redemption.

The redemption of man must mean, as they clearly see, the redemption of the world in which man lives.

The Key-Word is redemption with the emphasis put upon possession while redemption in Exodus put the stress upon deliverance.

The work of their redemption is not even started in such a way as to permit me to safely leave them.

The bill authorizing a loan for the redemption of treasury notes was passed on the 22nd day of June.

The crown of his financial fame was his plan for the redemption of the National Debt introduced in 1786.

In the nature of the case, real redemption, without any makeshift, was the only way this could be done.

They were so to the heart of the precious Savior, or he never would have undertaken the work of our redemption.

It cut against the grain of her heart to admit that a rebel could have any redemption by gifts.

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty, is solved by the redemption of the soul.

The history of his life is the history of that redemption, and this is its rich meaning for us.

Is the strongest truth and deals with the story of a man's redemption through a woman's love and devotion.

These are brief indications of the lines along which effective progress is being made in man's redemption by man.

Time will only permit me to refer to a few of the more important of the measures of man's physical redemption.

Forgiveness, and not some mystic deliverance by initiation or otherwise from the captivity of flesh and matter, is redemption.

In all such cases it is ordered that the owner of the man must recognize the right of redemption.

Their fall and degradation came slowly, by degrees, and in like manner will their redemption, doubtless, come to pass.

Who was concerned with the fate of that poor wretched girl anxious only for redemption, for a decent life?

Indeed, this system of par redemption seems to be a most perfect regulator upon all the New England banks.

And for my health, so far only as it may be the condition of my improvement, and final redemption.

That under this redemption lay the idea of a new title to the lands redeemed may be regarded as questionable.