redemptionistn.adj.

1647 J. Saltmarsh Sparkles of Glory 162 The generall Redemptionist.

1807 J. Hall Trav. in Scotl. II. 563 I saw great crouds going, and found it to be what are called Universal Redemptionists.

1861 Contrib. Eccl. Hist. Connecticut 279 Universalists presented themselves in two divisions: Redemptionists, who ridiculed the fear of any punishment after death, and Restorationists, who inculcated the expectation of future punishment.

1959 Times 17 Dec. 4/2 It was obvious that the Home Secretary was on the side of the redemptionists in his attitude to corporal punishment.

1998 R. P. Lightner Death Christ Died (rev. ed.) iii. 89 The limited redemptionists must again impose restrictions or limitations upon the death of Christ for ‘all’.

2007 Evening Standard (Nexis) 9 Nov. 54 The redneck redemptionist has to help his old teachers sort out the school's new generation of troublemakers.

1854 Chambers's Repository 10 26 The primary object of the Redemptionists being to raise money for the ransom of captives.

1855 Brownson's Q. Rev. Jan. 50 The Catholic redemptionist sold himself into slavery, that the captive might go free.

1977 16th Cent. Jrnl. 8 103 The description of the process by which captives were ransomed by European redemptionists demonstrates a vital ignorance of what actually occurred.

2007 K. Bales in K. A. Appiah & M. Bunzl Buying Freedom p. ix What did redemptionists flying into southern Sudan in the 1990s know of the price of a slave in Khartoum?

1849 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 11 Aug. 4/3 First stone of a new church to be dedicated to the Virgin, in connection with Convent of Redemptionist Fathers..laid Thursday by the Rev. Dr. Wiseman.

1889 Times 2 Oct. 11/2 The Liberals claimed on behalf of eight Catholic priests belonging to the Redemptionist Order.

1926 Jrnl. Relig. 6 361 Already in certain circles of Judaism there were stronger influences than had hitherto been supposed of oriental, Iranian-Babylonian redemptionist religion and speculation, such as we find later in Gnosticism.

1958 Jrnl. Criminal Law, Criminol., & Police Sci. 49 352/1 A Redemptionist monk burned a Bible along with a pile of other books.

2004 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 24 July 5 a Yet the Pen Revue program, unabashedly redemptionist, hints at a tender sensibility entirely missing in modern maximum-security prisons.