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Middle English
- salvacion, salvacioun, salvacyon, salvacyoun, salvation, sauvacioun, savacion, savacon, savacoun, savacyon, sawacyon
- (early) salvaciun, salvatiun, sauvaciun
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French salvacion, sauvacion, from Late Latin salvātiō, salvātiōnem; equivalent to saven + -acioun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa(l)ˌvaːsiˈuːn/, /sa(l)ˈvaːsjun/
Noun
savacioun (uncountable)
- Security; the act of making or state of being protected.
- Synonym: savete
- Religious salvation; deliverance from eternal doom.
- Synonym: savete
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC,
folio xxxix, verso, column 1, lines
621-623:
Foꝛ God ſo wyſely be my ſaluation / I loued neuer by no dyſcretion / But euer folowed myne appetite- Because God will be my salvation, / I never loved with any discretion, / but always obeyed my appetites.
- An individual who acts as security or salvation.
- Preservation, maintenance, or that which ensures it.
- (rare) Deliverance from or remediation of a wrong.
- (medicine, rare) Medical remediation; the restoration of health.
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