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savable, saveable, a.|ˈseɪvəb(ə)l|
Also 5 sauvable.
[f. save v. + -able. Cf. OF. sauvable, salvable.]
Capable of being saved; orig. chiefly in Theol. sense. Cf. salvable a.1
c1450Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 103 Nowe in it be cristis vertue growes the noumbre of the sauuable. 1530Palsgr. 323/1 Savable, saluable. 1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. Pref. §39 Those who doe subscribe them are in a saveable condition. 1751[J. Young] Affect. Narr. of Wager 25 Our unfortunate Lot was cast, where our Lives were however saveable. 1832Examiner 51/2 They [sc. small rotten boroughs] are not of a saveable size. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1211 Who has shown himself by his works savable?
¶ ? Conducive to salvation.
a1706Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. 374 And we find more admirable and saveable matter in one only Sermon of Jesus, upon the Mount, than in all the morals of the philosophers.
Hence † ˈsavableness.
1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. Concl. 411 Saveablenesse of Protestants. |