salvational
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- adjective
- /sælˈveɪʃənl/
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salvador
- The first two works are collections of exempla, each considered to have useful didactic properties specifically for the instruction of proper behavior in worldly matters, as well as orthodox salvational doctrine.
Examples
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Self-centeredness and logocentricity are obvious impediments to the salvational process.
Academic text (1993) -
Many believe that acts of kindness have a salvational quality that helps others find peace.
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There is a parallel to the salvational aspirations of gnostics in history.
Blog text (33) -
It has no salvational qualities whatsoever.
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Life and death receive their salvational realization, not my rendering the individual "nothing," but rather freely given by God.
Blog text (33) -
At the center of women's literate identity are reading and writing practices related to the moral and salvational domains of cultural life.
Academic text (1992) -
He is not the first to be reluctant to accept God's authority: Jonah rebelled against sailing to Nineveh in order to prophesy; yet he did go, and his going was salvational for a people not his own.
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Merkt argues that this third category of believers, perched in the salvational hierarchy between the martyrs and the damned, provided a seedbed for the growth of purgatory.
Academic text (2008) -
What we find, in the case of New England, is thus an interweaving of a millennial idiom with the "particularism of grace," or with the "community of saints." The existence of such a definition of collective identity in terms of a "salvational collective" is indeed to be found in all cases of millennial beliefs and intimations.
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The pastor spoke about salvational faith during the sermon, emphasizing its importance for spiritual growth.
Synonyms
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Helping someone feel forgiven and want to change their life
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That can save people, especially in a religious way
Bringing rescue from sin and spiritual harm
About ideas or actions that make a person feel forgiven and like a better person
Antonyms
How Saving
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word salvational comes from the same root as save and salvation; salv- means 'to save' or 'safe'. So, something salvational brings rescue or spiritual safety, especially in a religious sense.