Webster's 1828 Dictionary
REDEEMING
ppr. Ransoming; procuring deliverance from captivity, capture, bondage, sin, distress or liability to suffer, by the payment of an equivalent.
New American Oxford Dictionary
redeeming
re deem ing |riˈdēmiNG rɪˈdiːmɪŋ | ▶adjective 1 compensating for someone's or something's faults; compensatory: tuneless dirges with few redeeming features. a quite dreadful man, without a single redeeming quality. 2 able to save people from sin, error, or evil: the transforming power of God's redeeming grace.
Oxford Dictionary
redeeming
re ¦deem |ing |rɪˈdiːmɪŋ | ▶adjective 1 compensating for someone's or something's faults; compensatory: tuneless dirges with few redeeming features. a quite dreadful man, without a single redeeming quality. 2 able to save people from sin, error, or evil: the transforming power of God's redeeming grace.
American Oxford Thesaurus
redeeming
redeeming adjective the critics are hard-pressed to find anything redeeming about his latest book: compensating, compensatory, extenuating, redemptive.
Oxford Thesaurus
redeeming
redeeming adjective his work is not without redeeming features: compensating, compensatory, extenuating, offsetting, qualifying, redemptive; rare extenuatory.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
redeeming
re d é em ing 形容詞 〖名詞 の前で 〗改善する, 補う 〈性質 特徴 〉.