different between redeeming vs redemption

English

Adjective

redeeming (comparative more redeeming, superlative most redeeming)

1. Compensating for the faults of someone or something.
2. Able to save people from sin, error or evil.

Verb

redeeming

1. present participle of redeem

Noun

redeeming (plural redeemings)

1. An act of redemption.

References

• “redeeming”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

From Middle English redempcioun, from Old French redemption, from Latin redemptio. Doublet of ransom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d?mp??n/

Noun

redemption (countable and uncountable, plural redemptions)

1. The act of redeeming or something redeemed.
2. The recovery, for a fee, of a pawned article.
3. Salvation from sin.
   • 2011, Drama of Redemption, Lulu.com (?ISBN), page 9:

     Before creating the world, God knew both the need for and the means of the redemption He would provide through Jesus Christ.

4. Rescue upon payment of a ransom.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• nemopterid

Middle English

Noun

redemption

1. Alternative form of redempcioun

Old French

Alternative forms

• redempcion
• redempciun, redemptiun (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin redemptio. Doublet of raençon.

Noun

redemption f (oblique plural redemptions, nominative singular redemption, nominative plural redemptions)

1. redemption; salvation from sin

Descendants

• ? Middle English: redempcioun, redempcion, redemption, redempcyoune, redempcyoun, redemcioun
  • English: redemption
  • Scots: redemption
• French: rédemption