salvation

[sal-vey-shuhn]

noun

1. the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.

2. the state of being saved or protected from harm, risk, etc.

3. a source, cause, or means of being saved or protected from harm, risk, etc.

4. Theology.,  deliverance from the power and penalty of sin; redemption.

salvation

/ sælˈveɪʃən /

noun

1. the act of preserving or the state of being preserved from harm

2. a person or thing that is the means of preserving from harm

3. Christianity deliverance by redemption from the power of sin and from the penalties ensuing from it

4. Christian Science the realization that Life, Truth, and Love are supreme and that they can destroy such illusions as sin, death, etc

salvation

¹

1. Being “saved” among Christians (see also Christian); salvation is freedom from the effects of the Fall of Man. This freedom comes through faith in Jesus, who is called in the New Testament “the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.” The Apostles taught that those who experience salvation in their lifetime on Earth and continue in their friendship with God will inherit eternal happiness in heaven.

salvation

²

1. In Christianity, union or friendship with God and deliverance from original sin (see also original sin) and damnation. Jesus promised salvation to his followers.

Other Word Forms

• salvational adjective
• nonsalvation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of salvation¹

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English salvatio(u)n, from Late Latin salvātiōn-, stem of salvātiō “deliverance, saving,” from salvāt(us) “saved” (past participle of salvāre “to save”; save ¹ ) + -iō -ion ( def. ); replacing Middle English sa(u)vaciun, sauvacion, from Old French sauvacion, from Late Latin, as above

Word History and Origins

Origin of salvation¹

C13: from Old French sauvacion, from Late Latin salvātiō, from Latin salvātus saved, from salvāre to _save ¹

Example Sentences

Mr. Easterly is not a friend of rich-world technocrats or top-down dispensers of aid and omniscience who frequently fail to consult the very people—the Third World poor—for whose salvation they get paid handsomely.

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Everyone in purgatory is saved, salvation has come, but that doesn’t mean we need to track into heaven the muck we got on ourselves in life.

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Billionaires, if you listen to politicians and their supporters, will either lead us to salvation on the mountaintop, or into the abyss.

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“In fact, he’s turning away from that and just trying to understand himself, like most of my characters who are trying to reclaim a piece of their humanity. He finds salvation through honesty.”

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In overtly religious works, when the Antichrist vouchsafes temporal comfort, it usually comes at the expense of man’s eternal salvation.

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Related Words

• deliverance 
• emancipation 
• liberation 
• pardon 
• redemption 
• restoration