redeemers
Those who rescue
Redeemers are those who redeem—who buy back, rescue, or restore.
In Christianity, the Redeemer is Jesus Christ, who saves humanity from sin.
More broadly, a redeemer is anyone who saves or delivers others from difficulty: She was hailed as the redeemer of the struggling franchise.
The term carries overtones of salvation or restoration to a better state.
One who saves others
- liberatorOne who frees others
- delivererOne who brings goods
- saviorOne who rescues another
- heroOne admired for courage
champion · protector · defender · emancipator · guardian · knight · paladin · crusader
Prophesied liberator figure
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- sanctificationMaking someone or something sacred
absolution · propitiation · reconciliation · repentance · faith · righteousness · holiness · gospel
Official clearing of blame
- acquittalFormal clearing of charges
- justificationReason proving rightness
- clearingTreeless space in forest
- absolutionFormal clearing of guilt
defense · validation · substantiation · corroboration · confirmation · legitimization · upholding · endorsement
rescuer
One who saves others
hero · champion · protector · defender · emancipator · guardian · knight · paladin · crusader · benefactor
messiah
Prophesied liberator figure
sanctification · absolution · propitiation · reconciliation · repentance · faith · righteousness · holiness · gospel · divinity
exoneration
Official clearing of blame
- acquittalFormal clearing of charges
- justificationReason proving rightness
- clearingTreeless space in forest
absolution · defense · validation · substantiation · corroboration · confirmation · legitimization · upholding · endorsement · proof
- heroeshero, heroes, heroine, heroines, superhero
- fulfillersachievers, doers, completers, accomplishers, deliverers
redeemerscorruptors
Those who debase others
damners · corrupters · tempters · devils · demons
redeemersdestroyers
Fast armed naval vessels
enslavers · ruiners · condemners · oppressors · persecutors
redeemersenslavers
Those who own humans
captors · bondholders · creditors · jailers · imprisoners
- Christ the RedeemerBrazilian hilltop religious monument
- redeemed oneselfRestored standing after wrongdoing