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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

Redención

Pronunciation / Transliteration: re.denˈsjon

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Redemption/rɪˈdɛmp.ʃən/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La redención es un tema recurrente en la literatura."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil.

    "Many believe that redemption is possible through acts of kindness and forgiveness."
  2. 2

    The act of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment.

    "The redemption of the coupon allowed her to save money on her purchase."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'redemptio', meaning 'a buying back, ransoming', stemming from the verb 'redimere' (re- 'back' + emere 'to buy'). It entered Middle English via Old French in the 14th century, initially carrying religious connotations of deliverance from sin before broadening to general recovery or compensation.

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