Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Preservation or deliverance from destruction, difficulty, or evil.
- n. A source, means, or cause of such preservation or deliverance.
- n. Christianity Deliverance from the power or penalty of sin; redemption.
- n. Christianity The agent or means that brings about such deliverance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Preservation from destruction, danger, or calamity; deliverance.
- n. In theology, deliverance from the power and penalty of sin.
- n. Source, cause, or means of preservation from some danger or evil.
Wiktionary
- n. religion The process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell).
- n. The process of being restored or made new for the purpose of becoming saved; the process of being rid of the old poor quality conditions and becoming improved.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.
- n. (Theol.) The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness.
- n. Saving power; that which saves.
WordNet 3.0
- n. saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation
- n. a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness
- n. (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
- n. the state of being saved or preserved from harm
Etymologies
- Middle English savacioun, from Old French sauvacion, from Late Latin salvātiō, salvātiōn-, from salvātus, past participle of salvāre, to save; see salvage. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But an event in the history of salvation becomes a miracle from the fact that something _extraordinary_, something _new_, happens in it, which by its newness and its extraordinary character presents itself to man as the manifestation of certain divine _ends in salvation_, and can be explained _at first sight_, but only at first sight, from nothing else than from the service which it renders to the plan of redemption.”
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
“I now ask, Does not this show that the salvation in the text is truly _a great salvation_?”
Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk
“Congratulations - I think my salvation is a while off especially since Gabriella graduated to sleeping most of the night in our bed this week!”
“You shelve your future, or what you call your salvation, on the merits of a Sacrifice, and think yourselves relieved of all further trouble.”
“Christ came: "All things are now ready"; the salvation is already accomplished, and only waits the Lord's time to be manifested: He "is ready to judge." last time -- the last day, closing the day of grace; the day of judgment, of redemption, of the restitution of all things, and of perdition of the ungodly.”
“For we miserably mutilate it, and sinfully as well as foolishly limit its application and its power, if we recognise it only -- I was going to say mainly -- as being the ground of our hope and of what we call our salvation, and do not recognise it as being the obligatory example of our lives, which we are bound to translate into our daily practice.”
Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
“The upper classes of Europe in the same spirit applauded what they called the salvation of society by the _coup d'etat_, the massacre on the Boulevards and the lawless deportation of the leaders of the working men in France.”
“The joy of Cornelius at what he called the salvation of the Meistersinger knew no bounds.”
“If you, as St. Paul says, have a form of godliness, and yet in your life and actions deny the power of it, by living without God in the world, and following the lowest maxims of the world in everything but what you call the salvation of your souls, what wonder if your children grow up despisers of those who are good?”
“Joy in God and in his salvation is the only true, solid, satisfying joy.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘salvation’.
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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RELI - Christian doctrines
infallibility, inerrancy, communicable attr..., incommunicable at..., fortuitous incarn..., atonement, hypostatic union, mystical union, spirit-baptism, sanctification, indwelling, fruits of the Hol... and 90 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words Associated With Jesus
Words that indentify Jesus and His Salvation to those who seek Him.
hope, grace, love, faith, salvation, truth, eternity, heaven, god, holy spirit, bible, scripture and 191 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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RELI - words you immediately associat...
baptism, almighty, Balaam, altar, anoint, archangel, apostle, advent, writings, wonders, timbrel, thorns and 341 more...
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Imbible Code ✞
Christian word branding; common English word-associatives connected to Bible terminology or scripture.
I also have a general Bible-word list.god, father, son, trinity, sacrament, knowledge, serpent, flood, evil, good, spirit, revelation and 118 more...
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Favorite Words Ending In 'tion
obfuscation, delineation, ratiocination, proprioception, gesticulation, oscillation, undulation, fasciculation, confabulation, interdiction, juxtaposition, commiseration and 41 more...
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solutions
one word (preferably / not a must). terms that solved, help solve or theoretically will solve the world's problems (past, present, future).
these can be general, umbrella terms or...veganism, neurotechnology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, globalism, sustainability, laws, ecology, education, immunization, switchgrass, Esperanto and 72 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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revelation
synonyms of revelation or even catalysts leading revelation (moments of clarity).. whatever they may be (preferably nouns)
also experiences that are possible paths to enlightenment (v...rebirth, awakening, catharsis, revival, renewal, dawning, spring, reunion, recollect, exodus, epiphany, prophecy and 48 more...
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Neww
specious, disdainfully, vehemently, in lieu of, dismissive, perpetual, preposterous, impasse, fathom, conversely, repugnant, clogged and 142 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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Barron's 1100 words you need to know ...
ascetic, bona fide, decadence, destitution, desultory, disciple, fulsome, indoctrinate, lush, materialism, metamorphosis, nirvana and 8 more...
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