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redemption

/ri-demp-shuhn/US // rɪˈdɛmp ʃən //UK // (rɪˈdɛmpʃən) //

赎回,兑换,赎罪,救赎

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake, or the state of being redeemed.
    • : deliverance; rescue.
    • : Theology. deliverance from sin; salvation.
    • : atonement for guilt.
    • : repurchase, as of something sold.
    • : paying off, as of a mortgage, bond, or note.
    • : recovery by payment, as of something pledged.
    • : conversion of paper money into specie.

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Examples

  • Like him, Buckley said, extremists are worthy of redemption and capable of change.

  • Some victims scramble together the money, Smith said, by buying gift cards and sending their tormentors the redemption codes that can be turned into cash.

  • In Jones’s telling, sin and redemption are both personal and communal.

  • You apologize, keep your head low, maybe resign to spend more time with your family and come back with a book deal, cable news contract or pet cause that offers redemption or credibility.

  • Failing to convert the most efficient shot in basketball was Toronto’s failing to start the season, and it has become their redemption since.

  • Even if Loertscher eventually achieves legal redemption, she says the damage has already been done.

  • It was about the hope and longing for redemption and reconciliation that lies somewhere within each of us.

  • Excerpted from Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S.C. Gwynne.

  • Throughout her life, she faced public ridicule, legal persecution and, eventually, redemption through a PhD in clinical sexology.

  • Giving prisoners a chance at redemption is a good idea; but we were too careless, and innocent people suffered because it it.

  • At the same time no gold is paid out in redemption of notes, nor is it allowed to be exported.

  • Hence, at the end of the war, the provision for redemption of Bank of England notes will work automatically.

  • Under the figure of the deliverance from the Babylonish captivity, the church is invited to rejoice for her redemption from sin.

  • It would be impossible, as well as impious, for men to imitate the making of the Covenant of Redemption, or of that of Works.

  • Come to our aid then; the morning of our Redemption from degradation, adorns the horizon.