Redeeming

Definitions: Redeeming

Redeeming

Adjective

1. Bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love".

2. Compensating for some fault or defect; "the redeeming feature of the plan is its simplicity"; "his saving grace was his sense of humor".

Date "redeeming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Redeeming

Synonyms: redeeming(a) (adj), redemptive (adj), saving(a) (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Redeeming

English words defined with "redeeming": Re-demption, redemptive ♦ saving ♦ To foreclose a mortgager. (references)

Specialty definitions using "redeeming": PAWNBROKER, Puddle ♦ redemption, Re-demption ♦ Sigh. (references)

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Modern Usage: Redeeming

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	They do have one redeeming feature: their wallets. (Blackadder II; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton)
Clever	I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices. (references; author: Mark Twain)
Movie/TV Titles	Utterly Without Redeeming Social Value (1969) The Redeeming Sin (1929) Redeeming Love (1916)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Redeeming

Domain	Title
Books	Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries (Asthetics Today) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Redeeming

Author	Quotation
Benjamin Disraeli	He has not a single redeeming defect.
Justice William J. Brennan	But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Redeeming

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religion, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it. We must awake Man's spirit from his sin, And take some special measure for redeeming it; Though hard indeed the task to get it in Among the angels any way but teaming it, Or purify it otherwise than steaming it. I'm awkward at Redemption -- a beginner: My method is to crucify the sinner. Golgo Brone
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Redeeming

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	Nor have we used the power confided by the same act of prolonging the foreign debt by reloans, and of redeeming instead thereof an equal sum of the domestic debt.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Redeeming

"Redeeming" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 59.52% of the time. "Redeeming" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	59.52%	25	69,787
Adjective (general or positive)	35.71%	15	90,616
Noun (singular)	4.76%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	42	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Redeeming

Expression using "redeeming": redeeming feature. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Redeeming

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
redeeming love	8
center christian love redeeming	5
church love redeeming	3
america redeeming	2
counseling life redeeming	2
redeeming the time	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Redeeming

Language		Translations for "redeeming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		компенсиращ (cancellous, compensative). (various references)

Chinese		赎回 (redeem, redeemed, redemptive). (various references)

French		rachetant. (various references)

German		versöhnend (conciliative, propitiating, reconciliatory, reconciling), heilbringend (beneficial, medicinal, salutary), ausgleichend (compensative, equalizing, equational, offsetting). (various references)

Hungarian		megváltó (messiah, redeemer, savior, saviour), jóvátevő, helyrehozó (rectifier), ellensúlyozó. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		身請け (ransoming), 身受け (ransoming). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		みうけ (ransoming). (various references)

Korean		되삼. (various references)

Pig Latin		edeemingray

Romanian		recuperare (reclamation, recovery, recuperation, saving), justiţiar (reparative). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		koji ublažuje (saving). (various references)

Spanish		redentor (redeemer, redemptive, Saviour). (various references)

Swedish		utlösning (orgasm, redemption, release). (various references)

Ukranian		що відшкодову�". (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Redeeming

Language	Date	Source	Ephesians Chapter 5, Verse 16
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Exagorazomenoi ton kairon oti ai hmerai ponhrai eisin
Latin	405	Vulgate	Redimentes tempus quoniam dies mali sunt
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Not as vnwise men, but as wise men, ayenbiynge tyme, for the daies ben yuele.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Redemynge the tyme: for ye dayes are evyll.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Making good use of the time, because the days are evil.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Redeeming

Language	Ephesians Chapter 5, Verse 16
Bulgarian	Но както църквата се подчинява на Христа, така и жените нека се подчиняват във всичко на своите мъже.
Cebuano	nga managpahimulos sa kahigayonan kay ang kapanahonan karon puno sa kalisdanan.
Chinese	要愛惜光陰、 � 為現今的世代邪惡。
Croatian	Iskupljujte vrijeme jer dani su zli!
Danish	så I købe den belejlige Tid, efterdi Dagene ere onde.
Dutch	Den tijd uitkopende, dewijl de dagen boos zijn.
Finnish	ja ottakaa vaari oikeasta hetkestä, sillä aika on paha.
French	rachetez le temps, car les jours sont mauvais.
German	und kaufet die Zeit aus; denn es ist böse Zeit.
Haitian Creole	Pa kite okenn okazyon pase pou fè sa ki byen. Paske, jou sa yo n'ap viv la a pa bon menm.
Hungarian	Áron is megvegyétek az alkalmatosságot, mert a napok gonoszok.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Gunakanlah sebaik-baiknya setiap kesempatan yang ada padamu, karena masa ini adalah masa yang jahat.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	dengan tiada membuangkan waktu, karena masa ini masa jahat.
Italian	profittando del tempo presente, perché i giorni sono cattivi.
Korean	세 �" 을 아 끼 라 ! 때 가 악 하 니 라 !
Latvian	Bet kâ gudri! Izmantojiet laiku, jo ðîs dienas ir ïaunas!
Maori	Hokona te taima ma koutou, he kino hoki nga ra.
Modern Greek	εξαγοραζομενοι τον καιρον, διοτι αι ημεραι ειναι πονηραι.
Norwegian	så I kjøper den beleilige tid; for dagene er onde.
Portuguese	usando bem cada oportunidade, porquanto os dias são maus.
Rumanian	Rqscumpqrayi vremea, cqci zilele sknt rele.
Russian	�"ПТПЦБ ЧТЕНЕОЕН, � ПФПНХ ЮФП �"ОЙ МХЛБЧЩ.
Shuar	Pénker Túratin tsawant Wasúrkáip. Tunáa ti pampaatsuk.
Spanish	redimiendo el tiempo, porque los días son malos.
Swahili	Tumieni vizuri muda mlio nao maana siku hizi ni mbaya.
Swedish	och tagen väl i akt vart lägligt tillfälle. Ty tiden är ond.
Thai	จงฉวยโอกาสเพราะว่าทุกวันนี้เป็นกาลที่ชั่ว
Ukrainian	використовуючи час, дні бо лукаві!
Uma	Kana tapake' lompe' loga to ria hi kita', apa' tempo toi-e dada'a lia kehi manusia'.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Redeeming

Derivations
	Words ending with "redeeming": coredeeming. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Redeeming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: redening. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Redeeming"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "redeeming" (pronounced rudē"ming)
4	-ē" m i ng	beaming, dreaming, gleaming, scheming, screaming, seeming, steaming, streaming, teaming, teeming.
3	-m i ng	acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slamming, slimming, squirming, stemming, storming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, taming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Redeeming

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-g-i-m-n-r"
	-2 letters: deeming, demerge, dreeing, emender, emerged, energid, ermined, greened, greenie, needier, reeding, reedmen, regimen, reigned, reneged.
	-3 letters: degerm, degree, denier, dinger, edgier, emerge, emigre, engird, ermine, gender, germen, girned, grimed, mender, merged, minder, needer, nereid, redeem, reding, regime, reined, remend, remind, renege, ringed.
	-4 letters: deign, denim, diene, dimer, diner, dinge, dirge, edger, eerie, eider, emeer, emend, ender, genie, genre, greed, green, gride, grime, grind, merde, merge, midge, mined, miner, mired, reign, renig, ridge, rimed.
	-5 letters: deem, deer, deme, dene, deni, dere, derm, dime, dine, ding, dire, dree, dreg, edge, eger, eide, emir, erne, geed, gene, germ, gied, gien, gird, girn, gree, grid, grim, grin, idem, ired, meed, mend, mere, mien, mind, mine, mire, need, neem, nerd, nide, rede, reed, rein, rend, ride, rime, rind, ring.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-g-i-m-n-r"
	+1 letter: regimented.
	+2 letters: coredeeming, demergering, gendarmerie, greenmailed, legerdemain.
	+3 letters: decrementing, demagnetizer, disagreement, gendarmeries, legerdemains.
	+4 letters: demagnetizers, disagreements, redetermining, semilegendary.
	+5 letters: disremembering, hyperpigmented, predetermining, reembroidering.
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