Definition of "redemptive" [re•demp•tive]

• Of something that is redeeming; being of redemption or saving (adjective)

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• ""There's not what you call a redemptive arc—and Americans love their redemptive arc—but it isn't absolutely without hope, either.""
• "Writing this book made me feel that I was using my own difficulty to make things easier for other people, and there was a certain redemptive value in that."
• "Mine, The Bible is a record of the important events in redemptive history the creation of man is at the very beginning of this history what happened before is merely prologue."