Salvation
[sæl'veɪʃ(ə)n] or [sæl'veʃən]
Definition
(noun.) saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation; 'the salvation of his party was the president's major concern'.
(noun.) a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness; 'tourism was their economic salvation'; 'they turned to individualism as their salvation'.
(noun.) the state of being saved or preserved from harm.
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Definition
(n.) The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Preservation, deliverance, redemption, rescue, escape from danger, security from evil.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Preservation, saving, redemption, rescue, deliverance
ANT:Destruction, perdition, damnation
Checker: Salvatore
Definition
n. act of saving: means of preservation from any serious evil: (theol.) the saving of man from the power and penalty of sin the conferring of eternal happiness: (B.) deliverance from enemies.—v.t. to heal to cure: to remedy: to redeem: to gloss over.—ns. Salvā′tionism; Salvā′tionist.—Salvation Army an organisation for the revival of evangelical religion amongst the masses founded by William Booth about 1865 reorganised on the model of a military force in 1878; Salvation Sally a girl belonging to the Salvation Army.
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Examples
- When Mr Crich heard that Gudrun Brangwen might come to help Winifred with her drawing and modelling he saw a road to salvation for his child. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And if I do so, said the Templar, it concerns not thee, who art no believer in the blessed sign of our salvation. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- How it must have surprised these people to hear the way of salvation offered to them without money and without price. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The deepest concern of life was the salvation of the individual soul. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Work must be our salvation. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- This arrangement proved Howe’s salvation, and in December, 1844, he moved into his new friend’s house. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Christianity also was a doctrine of immortality and salvation, and it too spread at first chiefly among the lowly and unhappy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Change of scene and change of occupation may really be the salvation of him at this crisis in his life. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I mean that courage is a kind of salvation. Plato. The Republic.
- From salvation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were but varying answers to one universal question: What must we do for salvation? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And every true artist is the salvation of every other. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As we were to learn later, this precaution saved us from dire predicament, and was eventually the means of our salvation. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Would you send us out among these desperate hordes, with no salvation in our utmost need but this old turret? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And this will be their salvation, and they will be the saviours of the State. Plato. The Republic.
Edited by Eileen