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Redemptory vs Redemptive - What's the difference?

redemptory | redemptive |

As adjectives the difference between redemptory and redemptive

is that redemptory is paid as ransom; serving to redeem while redemptive is of something that is redeeming; being of redemption or saving.

redemptory

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Paid as ransom; serving to redeem.
    • Hector's redemptory price. — Chapman.
    (Webster 1913)

    redemptive

    English

    Adjective

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