REDEEMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does redeeming mean? 

• REDEEMING (adjective)
  The adjective REDEEMING has 2 senses:

1. bringing about salvation or redemption from sin

2. compensating for some fault or defect

  Familiarity information: REDEEMING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REDEEMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bringing about salvation or redemption from sin

Synonyms:

redeeming; redemptive; saving

Context example:

redemptive (or redeeming) love

Similar:

good (morally admirable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Compensating for some fault or defect

Context example:

his saving grace was his sense of humor

Similar:

good (having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified)

 Context examples 

Weedon Scott had set himself the task of redeeming White Fang—or rather, of redeeming mankind from the wrong it had done White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His redeeming quality is a love of animals, though, indeed, he has such curious turns in it that I sometimes imagine he is only abnormally cruel.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was a winter late in redeeming his promise, but redeemed it was, for the last, least Silva got a pair of shoes, as well as Maria herself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And yet I did not despise him the more for it, but thought it a redeeming quality in him if he could be allowed any grace for not resisting one so irresistible as Steerforth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

True, reader; and I knew and felt this: and though I am a defective being, with many faults and few redeeming points, yet I never tired of Helen Burns; nor ever ceased to cherish for her a sentiment of attachment, as strong, tender, and respectful as any that ever animated my heart.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)