Synonyms for redemptive
rɪˈdɛmp tɪvre·demp·tive

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1. redemptive, redemptional, redemptoryadjective

   of or relating to or resulting in redemption

   "a redemptive theory about life"- E.K.Brown

   Synonyms:
   saving(a), redemptional, redemptory, redeeming(a)

   Antonyms:
   evil

2. redemptive, redeeming(a), saving(a)adjective

   bringing about salvation or redemption from sin

   "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love"

   Antonyms:
   evil

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1. Tracy Franks:

   Some people may feel its lining the pockets of Planned Parenthood, but our donors wanted it and we felt it was redemptive and a restoration of community values, now we have a building worth far more than what we paid for it and now they ca n’t come back.

2. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

3. Theaster Gates:

   I'm not trained as an architect, but I think about buildings a lot, architecture becomes a much more complex envelope, an envelope that can carry both the high and the low, the international and the very local, the rich and the poor. It's only when those things start to conflate in really beautiful ways that I think we can have a redeemed, redemptive architecture.

4. Erik Edstrom:

   Our work will not make up for the failure of America's war in Afghanistan, but there is something redemptive and human about this mission : alleviating suffering rather than causing it, some people in this group have cited that this is some of the finest work they have done in their lives. And doing this feels far more connected to helping people than did my on-the-ground when I was deployed as an infantry officer.