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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 〉.

 

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