redemptory


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Synonyms for redemptory

of or relating to or resulting in redemption

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The enigmatic Wood creates a redemptory tone for the story's ending.
Images and slogans of Bandera figured prominently in the demonstrations; extreme right-wing groups resorted to violence, which they presented as redemptory. (16) When confronted by opponents of the Euromaidan--who constituted around 40 percent of the Ukrainian population and much more in the East and South--supporters of the revolution dismissed their critics as "dregs" (sovki) of Ukrainian society unsuited for membership in the nation.
(7) The novel's very political vision and sense of redemptory collectivism relies on the intimate and highly personal interactions between individual, community, and place, however abstracted they may seem.
At this point, I will go over some accusations that are no secret to anyone and feature the payment of briberies, the application of redemptory instruments on open spaces, the practice of trade via the purchase, implementation and selling of the ordered grants, abuse of power, illicit profiteering, the acquisition by some officials in the Jeddah municipality of grants for them and their family members and their selling to others, and the authorizing of the exploitation and building on the lands located on the course of the floods, in clear violation of the royal orders and instructions preventing construction in and acquisition of valleys.
At the end of the journey, however, the protagonists return to Ephesus and in their sacrifices to Artemis Whitmarsh identifies a 'powerfully symbolic, redemptory celebration of the Greek polis as the [...] centre of the world', (113) to which both Habrocomes and Anthia are reintegrated as mature citizens.
The result is an ironic twist, where belief in God and in his promised redemptory figure, the messiah, turns Jewish eyes earthward, where the preparation falls to them to prepare for his coming.
Since they were subjects of the British Empire they were members of a vast redemptory force.