Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the intention or power to bring about salvation or redemption.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to save or secure safety.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Tending to save or secure safety.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able or intending to provide
salvation orredemption .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective pertaining to the power of salvation or redemption
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I don't know about you guys, but I'm still having trouble with the word "salvific" It just sounds like some kind of unguent to me …
Knowledge is Power 2008
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Such a position registers its own anxieties on the fragility of its privilege, and subscribes to its own political theology in cleaving to the salvific power of reason in political life.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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Such a position registers its own anxieties on the fragility of its privilege, and subscribes to its own political theology in cleaving to the salvific power of reason in political life.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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Such a position registers its own anxieties on the fragility of its privilege, and subscribes to its own political theology in cleaving to the salvific power of reason in political life.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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Such a position registers its own anxieties on the fragility of its privilege, and subscribes to its own political theology in cleaving to the salvific power of reason in political life.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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Such a position registers its own anxieties on the fragility of its privilege, and subscribes to its own political theology in cleaving to the salvific power of reason in political life.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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Such a position registers its own anxieties on the fragility of its privilege, and subscribes to its own political theology in cleaving to the salvific power of reason in political life.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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Example 2: An excerpt (and note the salvific sense conveyed in the titles alone) from A Vision of the Grail, pub. 1992, in a chapter titled The Code of Codes, by molecular biologist (and Nobelist, no less) Walter Gilbert:
The Volokh Conspiracy » Would the Public Support “Cap and Refund”? 2010
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Such a position registers its own anxieties on the fragility of its privilege, and subscribes to its own political theology in cleaving to the salvific power of reason in political life.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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In summary, a well grounded skepticism is needed when scientists cum advocates seek immense governmental funding for their highly leveraged and purportedly salvific visions.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Would the Public Support “Cap and Refund”? 2010
slumry commented on the word salvific
redemptive
July 18, 2007
maryw commented on the word salvific
I came across this on Saturday and it was unfamiliar enough that I looked it up. I was surprised to see it again in a different article in the same magazine. Who else am I going to tell if not the Wordnik community?
John Kaag, "Fatal Courage," American Scholar, 90, no. 1 (2021): 16, 17
At the heart of the Christian story is a radical tension between the aspirations of the soul and the gross desires of the body, the salvific inner assent of conviction and the bodily suffering of the human.
T. M. Luhrmann, "God, Can You Hear Me?" American Scholar, 90, no. 1 (2021): 34, 44-45.
December 21, 2020