Salvation Definition

săl-vāshən
noun
A saving or being saved from danger, evil, difficulty, destruction, etc.; rescue.
Webster's New World
A person or thing that is a means, cause, or source of preservation or rescue.
Webster's New World
Deliverance from sin and from the penalties of sin; redemption.
Webster's New World
In religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, deliverance from the cycle of rebirth and suffering.
American Heritage
The agent or means that brings about such deliverance.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Salvation

Noun

Singular:
salvation
Plural:
salvations

Origin of Salvation

  • Middle English savacioun from Old French sauvacion from Late Latin salvātiō salvātiōn- from salvātus past participle of salvāre to save salvage

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French salvaciun, from Latin salvatio.

    From Wiktionary

Salvation Sentence Examples

  • But man's salvation was to be gradual.

  • The headquarters of the Salvation Army are in Queen Victoria Street, City.

  • In the council lay now, to judge from his words, the only chance of salvation; and, in view of the requirements of the case, he began to argue that, in case of schism, a council could be convoked by any one of the faithful, and would have the right to judge and even to depose the rival pontiffs.

  • Society, he earnestly pleaded, can only find salvation by a return to Christianity and to the fold of the Roman Catholic Church.

  • This philosophical sceptic is full of humble joy in salvation, of deep love for the Saviour.

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Words Starting With

SSASAL

Words Ending With

NONION

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