salvationary
Adjective
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Adjective
salvationary
- Relating to or providing salvation.
- 1898, Maria Weed, “A Millenium League,” The Midland Monthly, Des Moines, Iowa, Volume 10, No. 1, July 1898, p. 86,
- […] formulas of belief […] are only salvationary when they become the outward expression of a surcharged soul whom divine truth has emancipated.
- 1945, Robert W. Service, Ploughman of the Moon: An Adventure into Memory, New York: Dodd, Mead, Book 3, Chapter 8, p. 120,
- Mugson had a rich Uncle Archie who had married a lady evangelist. “Aunt Tibbie is so keen on saving souls,” he told us, “she is positively dangerous. She regards every one of us as a prospect for her salvationary lust; although she has not really saved Uncle Archie, as it would be detrimental to his business.”
- 1998, Abba Eban, Diplomacy for the Next Century, New Haven: Yale University Press, Chapter 8, p. 123,
- International organization […] was here portrayed as a magic spell that would make all previous politics and diplomacy obsolete. ¶ These salvationary hopes were based on the illusion that the American-Soviet-British alliance, which had won World War II, would command the future.
- 1898, Maria Weed, “A Millenium League,” The Midland Monthly, Des Moines, Iowa, Volume 10, No. 1, July 1898, p. 86,
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