Associations to the word «Redemption»

Wiktionary

REDEMPTION, noun. The act of redeeming or something redeemed.
REDEMPTION, noun. The recovery, for a fee, of a pawned article.
REDEMPTION, noun. Salvation from sin.
REDEMPTION, noun. Rescue upon payment of a ransom.
REDEMPTION FATIGUE, noun. Exhaustion of the capacity to forgive another owing to his excessively repeated transgressions.
REDEMPTION GAME, noun. An arcade game involving skill that rewards the player (in gifts, tokens, etc.) proportionately to his or her score.

Dictionary definition

REDEMPTION, noun. (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil.
REDEMPTION, noun. Repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock).
REDEMPTION, noun. The act of purchasing back something previously sold.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin