"redeems" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to express, for example, an act of regaining or recovering something by payment or sacrifice. For example, "The hero redeemed the city by sacrificing his life."
The way he redeems himself, twice, shows that maybe there is hope for us all.
Indeed, the novel seems to round on the notion that sex redeems existence or at least the existence of women: "Two kinds of women existed in the world, Owen perceived: those with whom you have slept and those, a cruelly disproportionate but reducible number, with whom you haven't".
An analysis published on Tuesday in the British Medical Journal (BMJ partially redeems that hope, though with important caveats.
Some of this may now be handed over to selected bankers.Even if the state redeems the mistaken gambles of the past, keeps depositors' confidence alive, and does so without printing huge amounts of money, the future of the Russian banking system remains bleak.
One of the only times these charges actually matter to the average traveller is when he redeems frequent flier miles.
These are "open-ended" vehicles, meaning that every time an investor puts money in, the fund issues him new shares, and every time he takes money out, the fund redeems some.
Still, the 18th century can hardly be called a period of decadence in the decorative arts of China: the superb execution of its productions, a characteristic that commands admiration, redeems it from adverse criticism.
A gentler echo of Loach's 1993 comedy Raining Stones, this is a fantasy romcom of sorts, mercifully too rough-edged to be entirely whimsical, about a sad sack who redeems his chaotic life thanks to his idol Eric Cantona.
As Rober D. Hodge writes in his excellent new book 'The Mendacity of Hope', "Obama is judged not as a man but as a fable, a tale of moral uplift that redeems the sins of America's shameful past".
He redeems himself towards the end by finally expressing some feelings of his own – in this case his fear of ageing, which he admits may have stripped him of optimism.
They have a belief that diligence redeems lack of ability.
