salvationistn.adj.
1. With capital initial. A member of the Salvation Army.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > salvationism > [noun] > person
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salvationist1882
salvation1889
Salvationer1889
Salvo1896
Sally1936
1882 Standard 17 Jan. As the ‘Salvationists’ started on their ‘triumphant march’,..they were pelted with mud and brickbats.
1892 Guardian 13 Jan. 33/2 The Eastbourne Salvationists seem to believe that they serve their cause by making Sunday hideous.
2. One who rescues from peril; a saviour.
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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun] > one who rescues or delivers
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delivererc1350
savioura1382
ransomera1400
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redeemer1552
saviouress1563
vindicator1566
sospitator1650
redemptor1858
salvationist1971
1971 Daily Tel. 4 May 14 Our great wartime leader, and I think salvationist, Sir Winston Churchill.
3. attributive or as adj.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [adjective]
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redemptionary1623
redemptional1787
redemptorial1826
salvational1859
soterial1879
salvationist1934
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Salvationist, n. & adj.
1943 J. S. Huxley Evol. Ethics vii. 56 What I may call salvationist ethics, aimed at achieving salvation in a supernatural other life.
1959 A. F. Wright Buddhism in Chinese Hist. iv. 81 Salvationist Buddhism..is neither an anomaly nor a temporary aberration of an otherwise ‘rational’ people.
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