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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having the intention or power to bring about salvation or redemption: "the doctrine that only a perfect male form can incarnate God fully and be salvific” ( Rita N. Brock).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Tending to save or secure safety.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Able or intending to provide salvation or redemption.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Tending to save or secure safety.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. pertaining to the power of salvation or redemption

Etymologies

  1. Latin salficus saving; salvus saved, safe + facere to make. (Wiktionary)
  2. Late Latin salvificus : Latin salvus, safe; see safe + Latin -ficus, -fic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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