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ˈsoul-saving, ppl. a.
[f. soul n. 23.]
That saves the soul.
1609J. Davies (Heref.) Holy Rood Wks. (Grosart) I. 7/1 This kinde, most kinde, Soule-sauing Emperick—His owne blood broacheth so our Soules to saue. 1642–4Vicars God in Mount (1844) 45 Preaching on deep points of soul-saving grace. 1755Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 209 Soul-damning clergymen lay me under more difficulties than soul-saving laymen! 1833H. Blunt Lect. Hist. St. Paul II. 34 A real soul-saving conversion. 1885Minutes of Wesleyan Conf. 20 His ministry was marked..by evangelical fervour and soul- saving power.
Hence † soul-savingness. Obs.—1
1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 134, I shall only point at some of the nesses..of the peoples coinage:..soul-saving-ness. |