词汇 | redemptive |
释义 | redemptive adjective formaluk /rɪˈdemp.tɪv/ us /rɪˈdemp.tɪv/ (especially in Christianity) saving someone from evil, suffering, etc.: 救赎的 the redemptive power of love, art, and friendship The book tells a redemptive story of a woman who triumphs over adversity.本书讲述了一个女人战胜逆境的救赎故事。 See redemption the healing and redemptive qualities of nature The film is warm-hearted, emotional and ultimately redemptive I hope we can make something redemptive out of the situation and find ways to care for one another. Religious concepts: forgiveness in religion absolution absolve cleanse cleanse someone/something of something confess confession deliverance grace redeem redemption remission salvation salvific shrive Examples of redemptiveredemptive Each path promises a redemptive order that is millennial and transcendent. A linear and redemptive symbol now underscores a cyclical or performance-based representation of reality. Only between redemptive scientism and traditional religions is there a direct conflict. Concepts like sin, redemptive suffering, and stewardship may be appealed to within a decisionmaking process. Regardless of how one sees this book, there is a redemptive quality to it : the thrill of people helping people. For example, he concedes that practical engagement in the arts does have the potential to change people, citing research concerning redemptive experiences with prisoners. Furthermore, his redemptive power is restricted and strangely conditional. He is the justified sinner of redemptive transgression. But at the same time, there is, on his view, little scope for what we might call redemptive possibility. For if redemption is possible after death, then post-mortem experiences ought to allow for the same sort of redemptive purpose that earthly experiences have. It has a communal and a redemptive dimension as well. The noble self-sacrice of the missionary became a redemptive offering. That is, one feature of redemptive possibility is that neither excellent habits nor practical wisdom is required in order to find the morally right way to act. The open borstal takes boys who need the more redemptive opportunities of the open borstal system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the people who substitute the redemptive organisation for the redemptive gadget. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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