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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King