"redemptive arc" meaning in English

See redemptive arc in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: redemptive arcs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} redemptive arc (plural redemptive arcs)
  1. (literature) Synonym of redemption arc (“story arc wherein an immoral character redeems themselves and makes right for their wrongdoings”). Categories (topical): Literature Synonyms: redemption arc [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-redemptive_arc-en-noun-n5qHBMxN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 32 Topics: literature, media, publishing
  2. (by extension) Synonym of redemption arc (“series of actions or events by which a person makes right for their past failures, errors, or wrongdoings”). Tags: broadly Synonyms: redemption arc [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-redemptive_arc-en-noun-s2SdEui6

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for redemptive arc meaning in English (2.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "redemptive arcs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "redemptive arc (plural redemptive arcs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Literature",
          "orig": "en:Literature",
          "parents": [
            "Culture",
            "Entertainment",
            "Writing",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "68 32",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 29, Ben Kenigsberg, “‘The Justice of Bunny King’ Review: No Way Out”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "A grim social-realist drama from New Zealand that labors to twist its narrative into a redemptive arc, “The Justice of Bunny King” has an unsteady tone to match its ungainly title.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of redemption arc (“story arc wherein an immoral character redeems themselves and makes right for their wrongdoings”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-redemptive_arc-en-noun-n5qHBMxN",
      "links": [
        [
          "literature",
          "literature"
        ],
        [
          "redemption arc",
          "redemption arc#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literature) Synonym of redemption arc (“story arc wherein an immoral character redeems themselves and makes right for their wrongdoings”)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "story arc wherein an immoral character redeems themselves and makes right for their wrongdoings",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "redemption arc"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 February 23, Tamryn Spruill, “Women’s Basketball Players Get a New Lifeline, Close to Home”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "For Manis, the league is an opportunity to course-correct a career beleaguered by bumps and false starts. She is joined by women at various stages of their basketball careers, many focused on redemptive arcs of their own.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of redemption arc (“series of actions or events by which a person makes right for their past failures, errors, or wrongdoings”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-redemptive_arc-en-noun-s2SdEui6",
      "links": [
        [
          "redemption arc",
          "redemption arc#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) Synonym of redemption arc (“series of actions or events by which a person makes right for their past failures, errors, or wrongdoings”)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "series of actions or events by which a person makes right for their past failures, errors, or wrongdoings",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "redemption arc"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "redemptive arc"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "redemptive arcs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "redemptive arc (plural redemptive arcs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Literature"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 29, Ben Kenigsberg, “‘The Justice of Bunny King’ Review: No Way Out”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "A grim social-realist drama from New Zealand that labors to twist its narrative into a redemptive arc, “The Justice of Bunny King” has an unsteady tone to match its ungainly title.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of redemption arc (“story arc wherein an immoral character redeems themselves and makes right for their wrongdoings”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "literature",
          "literature"
        ],
        [
          "redemption arc",
          "redemption arc#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literature) Synonym of redemption arc (“story arc wherein an immoral character redeems themselves and makes right for their wrongdoings”)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "story arc wherein an immoral character redeems themselves and makes right for their wrongdoings",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "redemption arc"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 February 23, Tamryn Spruill, “Women’s Basketball Players Get a New Lifeline, Close to Home”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "For Manis, the league is an opportunity to course-correct a career beleaguered by bumps and false starts. She is joined by women at various stages of their basketball careers, many focused on redemptive arcs of their own.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of redemption arc (“series of actions or events by which a person makes right for their past failures, errors, or wrongdoings”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "redemption arc",
          "redemption arc#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) Synonym of redemption arc (“series of actions or events by which a person makes right for their past failures, errors, or wrongdoings”)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "series of actions or events by which a person makes right for their past failures, errors, or wrongdoings",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "redemption arc"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "redemptive arc"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.