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English
Etymology
salvation + -ary
Adjective
salvationary (comparative more salvationary, superlative most salvationary)
- Relating to or providing salvation.
1898 July, Maria Weed, “A Millennium League”, in The Midland Monthly, volume 10, number 1, Des Moines, Iowa, page 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, chapter 8, in Diplomacy for the Next Century, New Haven: Yale University Press, page 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.
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