Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being salvaged or saved.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being saved; fit for salvation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
saved ; admitting ofsalvation .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The Democratic Party is made ridiculous time and again and yet well intentioned folks like Rob believe it to be salvable.
Urgent!! Dems Must Defend Moveon from the Right Wing's "Betray Us" Attack 2007
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The Democratic Party is made ridiculous time and again and yet well intentioned folks like Rob believe it to be salvable.
Urgent!! Dems Must Defend Moveon from the Right Wing's "Betray Us" Attack 2007
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Indeed, in some areas crocodiles may constitute the only readily salvable resource.
1 Introduction 1983
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Some of them consider this object to be, man to be created, or, as some of them express it, man as salvable and damnable, as capable of being created and of falling.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956
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But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry
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There was less action of the liver than usually indicates a salvable case, and no irritation of the lowest intestines.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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It proceeds beyond reaction to collapse in a hopeless case; it stops this side of that in a salvable one.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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If you do not believe that a fluctuating Simon can be changed into a rock; if you do not believe that a Magdalene can, through the grace of God, become a herald of the resurrection; if you do not believe that this world of men is a salvable world; then it is not to be wondered at that you are blue.
Sermons on Biblical Characters Clovis G. Chappell
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Then when I had saved what was salvable from the wreckage and reclad in such wardrobe as had luckily remained at home, I strolled over toward the police station to put in a serene and quiet evening.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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It is our conviction that these men "are not saved, but are salvable."
With Our Soldiers in France Sherwood Eddy 1917
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