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What does redemptive mean?

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Adjective
  1. Causing, or relating to, redemption or saving; redeeming.
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So this limpid, adorable film is also a tough, matter-of-fact portrait of the everyday, not a sentimental, redemptive whitewash.
There is no redemptive word in Herod's slaughter of the innocents and the inconsolable weeping of all the mothers of Bethlehem.
He dies, some say, with a redemptive, even hopeful vision emerging provisionally, perhaps delusively from the suffering of the tragedy.
Nor does she shirk her moral duty to counter evil with the redemptive power of truth.
It feels emotional and meaningful to me because I do think love is incredibly redemptive.
The infralapsarians, however, objected that this order made the fall a kind of upward step to the fulfilling of God's redemptive purposes.

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