salvation

plural salvations · alternative salvatioun

1. countableuncountablelifestyleThe process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell).

   Collective salvation is not possible without personal salvation, but the latter is achievable.

2. countableoftenuncountableThe act of saving, rescuing (in any context), providing needed safety or liberation; something that does this.

   Though this is not meant as a medical advice, smoking grass was an occasional salvation; it reduced the nausea, raised my spirits and even gave me a small appetite.

   1981 December 5, Tom Wilson, “Hepatitis”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 14

3. countableuncountableThe process of being restored or made new for the purpose of becoming saved; the process of being rid of the old poor quality conditions and becoming improved.

   If the Government believes that part of the railways' salvation is to be found in ridding them of extraneous concerns, it should have had the courage either to close the railway works down as quickly as possible, or to hive them off as an entirely separate concern, [...].

   1964 May, “News and Comment: Minister hamstrings BR workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 291

present singular third person salvations · participle present salvationing · participle past salvationed · past salvationed · alternative salvatioun

1. rareTo save, in the religious sense; to bring to salvation.