REDEMPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does redemption mean? 

• REDEMPTION (noun)
  The noun REDEMPTION has 3 senses:

1. (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil

2. repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock)

3. the act of purchasing back something previously sold

  Familiarity information: REDEMPTION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REDEMPTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

redemption; salvation

Hypernyms ("redemption" is a kind of...):

deliverance; delivery; rescue; saving (recovery or preservation from loss or danger)

Domain category:

divinity; theology (the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "redemption"):

absolution; remission; remission of sin; remittal (the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance)

conversion; rebirth; spiritual rebirth (a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life)

atonement; expiation; propitiation (the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity))

Derivation:

redeem (save from sins)

redemptional (of or relating to or resulting in redemption)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("redemption" is a kind of...):

quittance; repayment (payment of a debt or obligation)

Domain category:

corp; corporation (a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state)

Derivation:

redeem (pay off (loans or promissory notes))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of purchasing back something previously sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

buyback; redemption; repurchase

Hypernyms ("redemption" is a kind of...):

purchase (the acquisition of something for payment)

Derivation:

redeem (exchange or buy back for money; under threat)

 Context examples 

In years and years not one of them has been in contact with a good woman, or within the influence, or redemption, which irresistibly radiates from such a creature.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I lingered but a moment at the mirror: the second and conclusive experiment had yet to be attempted; it yet remained to be seen if I had lost my identity beyond redemption and must flee before daylight from a house that was no longer mine; and hurrying back to my cabinet, I once more prepared and drank the cup, once more suffered the pangs of dissolution, and came to myself once more with the character, the stature and the face of Henry Jekyll.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)