| Redemptive (a.) Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ. Thesaurus Entries Christlike, Christly, apologetic, ascetic, atoning, celestial, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, divine, empyrean, expiatory, godlike, godly, heavenly, incarnate, incarnated, indemnificatory, intercessional, intercessive, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, made flesh, mediative, mediatory, penitential, piacular, propitiative, propitiatory, purgative, purgatorial, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming, redemptional, redressing, reparative, reparatory, repentant, repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, restorative, retributive, reversional, reversionary, revertible, righting, salvational, satisfactional, self-existent, squaring, superhuman, supernatural, transcendent |