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savioursaviorn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French salveour. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman salveour, sauveour, saveor, saveour, saveur, Anglo-Norman and Old French salveor, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French sauveor, sauveour (Middle French, French sauveur ) God or Christ as the redeemer of sin (early 12th cent. in Old French as salvaire ), rescuer (early 12th cent.) < post-classical Latin salvator person who saves or rescues (Vetus Latina), especially as a title of Christ (Vulgate), person who salvages goods from a shipwreck (1328 in a British source) < salvat- , past participial stem of salvare save v. + classical Latin -or -or suffix. Compare Old Occitan salvador , Catalan salvador (14th cent.), Spanish salvador (13th cent.), Portuguese salvador (947), Italian salvatore (13th cent.). Compare salvator n. 1. Theology. the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > redeemer the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > as saviour c1330 (?a1300) (Auch.) (1973) l. 7916 Þai han þe signe of our Saueour, Wherþurth..It is socour of þis lond. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland (Vernon) (1867) A. xi. l. 66 Whi wolde God vr saueour suffre such a worm In such a wrong wyse þe wommon to bi-gyle? a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk (Claud.) (1974) l. 12 Ȝef thou plese thy sauyoure, Ȝef thow be not grete clerk, Loke thow moste on thys werk. 1472 in H. Littlehales (1905) 16 In the name of our lord Ihesu criste our Savyour: Amen. 1509 (de Worde) sig. F.iiiv He swore a full grete othe By Jhesu cryste our sauyoure. 1590 E. Digby 196 Gabriell the spirit of the Moone..begun his dominion ouer the world, the yeare of our Saviour his incarnation 1525. 1659 J. Pearson 498 They who did annunciate unto the blessed Virgin the conception of the Saviour. 1667 J. Milton iii. 412 Hail Son of God, Saviour of Men. View more context for this quotation 1744 J. Swift i. 11 Our Saviour tells us, that every Man is our Neighbour. 1753 J. Hanway I. xxviii. 181 Who is the king, the lawgiver, the redeemer, and the savior. 1827 J. Keble I. xxxv. 138 With the Saviour's life-blood wet. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in 43 O God Almighty, blessed Saviour,..Uphold me, Father. 1917 J. J. Munro xxiii. 152 She was a Christian woman and rejoiced in Christ as her Lord and Saviour. 1936 15 Feb. 15/4 The Protevangelium, the promise of the coming of the Saviour. 2011 P. Kurts 4 Jesus continues to be our Saviour, redeemer and deliverer. society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > receive communion [phrase] society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > administration of communion > perform communion [phrase] a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) (1891) l. 6434 But thou yeve me my sauyour At ester. a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk (Claud.) (1974) l. 1883 Ȝef he aske hys sauyour, Gyf hym hyt wyþ gret honour. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 1004 Than asked she her Saveoure, and as sone as she had reseyved Hym the soule departed frome the body. 1598 J. Gerard tr. L. Scupoli xxxi. sig. I2v Although thou canst not receiue thy Sauior more then once a day sacramentally, notwithstanding thou maiest receiue him spiritually, euery houre and moment. 1638 F. Hawkins tr. J.-P. de La Serre 17 Yee part I say from the Confession chaire to the Altar, there to receiue your Saviour with soules more disposed to offend heere after. 1844 J. Shepherd tr. J. B. Pagani vii. 67 With what confidence can I present myself to receive my Saviour in the most Blessed Sacrament? 1880 M. Müller VIII. 248 When he was but nine years old, [he] approached one day the communion rail, whilst the priest was distributing holy communion, impelled by a strong desire to receive his Saviour. 1910 D. O'Shea xviii. 197 I can't do better for him than to give him his Saviour, really and truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. 1994 L. S. Granger tr. J. van Herwaarden 57 Joan..emphasized that it was totally irrelevant whether one wears men's or women's clothes if one wishes to receive the Saviour. 2. the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun] > one who rescues or delivers a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xli. 45 He clepide hym in Egypcyan tonge: þe saueour [a1425 Corpus Oxf. saueor; L. Salvatorem] of þe world. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 4666 (MED) His nam þai chaunged, fra þat our, And cald him ‘warld sauueour’. c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 674 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) I. 26 And petir till hym [sc. Paul] þis can say: ‘..far wele ay..lledar of heile and saweoure!’ 1535 Ecclus. xlvi. 1 A greate sauioure vnto the electe of God. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane f. cxx Saynct Geneuefa is the sauiour of Paris. 1611 Neh. ix. 27 Thou gauest them sauiours, who saued them out of the hand of their enemies. View more context for this quotation 1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus 208 They sacrificed to Jupiter Soter, the saviour of the reposed Child. 1715 A. Pope 18 And Scipio, Saviour of the Roman State, Great in his Triumphs, in Retirement great. 1774 J. Wilkes (1805) IV. 185 Those who..now dare to persecute the saviour of India. 1833 M. Scott II. viii. 364 A statue erected to Lord Rodney, the saviour of the Island, as he is always called, from having crushed the fleet of Count de Grasse. 1871 R. Browning (title) Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau: Saviour of Society. 1896 A. E. Housman i. 2 To fields that bred them brave, The saviours come not home to-night. 1927 Aug. 738 (advt.) The manufacturers..have been hailed as the saviours of Tenor Saxophonists. 1959 Oct. 24/1 He was the savior baseball had to find after the Chicago White Sox dumped the 1919 World Series. 2000 (Nexis) 11 Apr. 10 The King's Royal Hussars..were hailed as saviours by Albanians threatened by Serbs. c1432 ( G. Chaucer (BL Add. 22139) (1879) l. 16 Now purse that be to me my lyues lyghte And sauyour [c1450 Fairf. saveour] as down in this worlde here. 1552 H. Latimer (1584) 297 Likewise shippes and boates..vpon the Seas are Sauiours, for they saue vs from the fury, rage, and tempest of the Sea. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch 1099 The moone and other starres, being forsooth gods, worke together with the sunne, unto their owne destruction... Now surely this were a very mockerie, and ridiculous thing for us..to repute them the saviours of men. 1700 B. Jenks 51 The Works they look upon, as their Real Saviours. 1804 ‘Gabrielli’ III. 126 Thus died the means I had looked to as the saviour of myself and children. 1894 (N.Y. ed.) July 107 It was sex which was the savior of the race. 1906 A. Mackintosh xliv. 377 Yesterday the House of Lords deserved to be abolished, to-day it is the saviour of the country. 1948 27 Nov. 16/1 It [sc. video] might even turn out to be the savior of the capitalist system. 2008 P. Golenbock ii. xxv. 333 When I got out of the service, they had passed the GI Bill, which was the savior for this country in a lot of ways. Compounds1709 I. Watts (ed. 2) iii. 306 The Names, the Honours of her Saviour-God, His Cross, his Grave, his Victory, and his Crown. 1786 S. J. Pratt 7 Ah, what is friend or foe to Him, whose soul Girding creation in one warm embrace, Extends the saviour arm from pole to pole, And feels akin to all the human race! 1801 R. Southey II. x. 256 Laila rushed between To save the saviour Youth. a1822 P. B. Shelley Assassins ii, in (1888) II. 158 How many holy liars..would his saviour arm drag from their luxurious couches. 1824 2 25 Society is still the saviour ark Must bear us in her bosom safe along Life's rising waters. 1871 1 18/1 The flood of waters overwhelmed the world that then was. But the saviour ark floated above those desolate seas. 1997 J. Bowker 15/2 (caption) Mithras was a Persian saviour god. 2006 M. Nudelman 29 I peck uncle's cheek and he opens savior arms like a prayer shawl. C2. In the names of plants (chiefly regional). the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > stachys or hedge nettle 1882 H. Friend 10 In Sussex the small plant (Stachys lanata) with a similar leaf is called ‘Saviour's Blanket’. 1980 A. O. Bell & A. McNeillie III. 144 (note) Stachys Lanate [sic], known variously as Saviour's Blanket, Jesus's Blanket, Lamb's, Donkey's or Rabbit's Ears. 1880 J. Britten & R. Holland Our Lord's Flannel, or Our Saviour's Flannel, (1) Echium vulgare, L.—Kent... (2) Verbascum Thapsus, L.—Kent. 1900 A. E. P. Dowling 74 Verbascum... It's thick leaves are called in Kent ‘Our Saviour's Flannel’ as if in memory of the swaddling bands of the Christmas Night. 1927 V. Woolf 4 July (1980) III. 144 They [sc. slightly furred cheeks] are like saviours flannel, of which she picked me a great bunch, in texture. 2008 B. Damrosch (rev. ed.) iv.120/2 Stachys lanata is variously called lamb's ears, woolly betony, and Saviour's flannel. Derivatives the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > as saviour > quality of being 1863 3rd Ser. 1 346/1 Jesus, in his Saviourhood, was made perfect through suffering. 1900 R. J. Campbell in 31 Jan. 71 The Saviourhood of Christ. 2003 P. Coates iii. 81 In Terminator 2..the signs of Saviourhood are distributed evenly between Connor and the Terminator himself. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay xxx. 568 There are two commings of Christ, the one in lowlynes.., Poore, Lowely, and Sauiourlyke; and the other in maiestie. 1660 J. Collop 5 Charls..Who Saviour like, turnes Water into Wine. a1711 T. Ken Edmund xiii, in (1721) II. 357 Edmund no Christ-like Virtue seem'd to need, But on the Cross and Saviour-like to bleed. 1855 J. R. Macduff p. iv Oh, that each individual Christian were more Saviourlike! 1974 M. G. Porter 133 Henderson stalks off, saviorlike, to rid the cistern of frogs and thus lift the plague. 2008 D. Simmons i. 34 In the 1960s, youth is positioned in opposition to the corrupt adult world and imbued with a distinctly savior-like role. the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun] > one who rescues or delivers > quality of 1615 E. Evans 146 His Lordship ioyned..His Saviourship to his Babeship. 1765 ‘Rabby Shylock’ ii. vi. 109 The saviourship and the merits of Christ. 1883 5 Jan. 7/2 We are all the saviours of one another, so that the question of saviourship appears to be a general principle. 1992 T. Szasz ii. 49 This role of universal religious-therapeutic saviorship seems to fit America's collective spirit so perfectly [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.c1330 |
