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US
/sæɫˈveɪʃən/
]
[ UK /sælvˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /sælvˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation
the salvation of his party was the president's major concern - the state of being saved or preserved from harm
- (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
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a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness
tourism was their economic salvation
they turned to individualism as their salvation
How To Use salvation In A Sentence
- Naa, Mr. Penrose, yo 'preachers talk abaat th' Cross, and it's o 'reet that yo' should; but yo 'cannot blame me for talkin' abaat my flute, con yo ', when it's bin my salvation? Lancashire Idylls (1898)
- The Protestant Reformers defined the Roman doctrine of Works as a form of barter system, whereby believers could accrue spiritual benefits for themselves and salvation through their performance.
- Salvation came in the form of a doctor who was able to help Sterry unravel the knots - and in the form of his wife.
- The union of Christ and the Father within the Godhead is that which we are to believe and rely upon for the certainty of our salvation.
- Thou teachest "my hands to war and my fingers to fight" [361] against the invisible enemies of my salvation and blessedness; against the enemies of holiness and of the power of Thy glory; against the subcelestial spirits of evil. My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God
- It is zeal for the salvation of souls which makes the prelateship desired, if you will believe the ambitious man; which makes the monk, who is destined for the choir, run hither and thither, as the restless soul himself will tell you; which causes all those censures and murmurings against the prelates of the Treatise on the Love of God
- His answer offers no fairy tales of salvation or a paradisiacal afterlife. Michael Brenner: The Buddha As Icon
- The joy of Cornelius at what he called the salvation of the Meistersinger knew no bounds. My Life — Volume 2
- Christ's spiritual body (Col 1: 24). they ... also -- as well as myself: both God's elect not yet converted and those already so. salvation ... glory -- not only salvation from wrath, but glory in reigning with Him eternally (2Ti 2: 12). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- His is on a quest for moksha, the salvation won when ending the cycle of rebirth.