| 释义 |
savingness rare.|ˈseɪvɪŋnɪs|
[-ness.]
1. ‘Tendency to promote eternal salvation’ (J.).
a1658Durham Comm. Rev. ii. iii. (1660) 123 One in the search and trial of the sincerity and savingnesse of his Grace, is not only [etc.]. a1677Manton Christ's Eternal Exist. vii. (1685) 193 Now if the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in him who gave this Covenant, we cannot deny either the certainty or the perfection, or the savingness of it.
2. The quality of being saving, sparing, frugal or parsimonious.
1727Bailey, vol. II, Savingness, Frugality. 1755in Johnson. 1876A. J. Evans Through Bosnia i. 32 The savingness of the race was noticeable in their clothing, which was the same they had brought with them from Bulgaria. |