Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Saving; making amends; noting what is good as exceptional to what is generally bad: as, there is not a single redeeming feature in the scheme.
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- verb Present participle of
redeem .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective compensating for some fault or defect
- adjective bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
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Examples
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He was a winter late in redeeming his promise, but redeemed it was, for the last, least
Chapter 35 2010
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One giant step forward in redeeming his sorry self! kww
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Law 5: The difficulty involved in redeeming a rebate is directly proportional to the dollar value of the rebate.
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I thought that was the main redeeming quality of the episode!
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In Gay City News, Steve Erickson focuses on Lives 'forced naiveté in redeeming both Wiesler and Dreyman and its assumption that there's something groundbreaking about treating the former as a human being.
GreenCine Daily: The Lives of Others and The Decomposition of the Soul. 2007
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The reason Macbeth is more interesting than Richard III is that Macbeth doesn't set out to be evil -- and he retains certain redeeming qualities (his tenderness toward his wife, for instance).
So you're thinking of creating a villain ... Frank Wilson 2006
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He was a winter late in redeeming his promise, but redeemed it was, for the last, least
Chapter 35 1908
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Heaven has already been sufficiently gracious to me by your hands, in redeeming me from my cruelest enemy: and for the rest, I put my trust in the same overruling Providence.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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He contrasted it with his own in redeeming with his money some of the Jewish exiles who, through debt or otherwise, had lost their personal liberty in Babylon.
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Or their treasures were used in redeeming the captives in the pirate cities.
treeseed commented on the word redeeming
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
adjective
Date: 1631
: serving to offset or compensate for a defect (her performance is the film's redeeming feature)
February 24, 2008
GHibbs commented on the word redeeming
My adjectival use: 'He is a nuisance but his redeeming feature is that he makes us laugh.'
August 24, 2011