salvationary

English

Etymology

salvation +‎ -ary

Adjective

salvationary (comparative more salvationary, superlative most salvationary)

1. Relating to or providing salvation.
   • 1898 July, Maria Weed, “A Millennium League”, in The Midland Monthly‎^[1], volume 10, number 1, Des Moines, Iowa, page 86:

     […] formulas of belief […] are only salvationary when they become the outward expression of a surcharged soul whom divine truth has emancipated.

   • 1945, Robert W. Service, Ploughman of the Moon: An Adventure into Memory‎^[2], New York: Dodd, Mead, Book 3, Chapter 8, p. 120:

     Mugson had a rich Uncle Archie who had married a lady evangelist. “Aunt Tibbie is so keen on saving souls,” he told us, “she is positively dangerous. She regards every one of us as a prospect for her salvationary lust; although she has not really saved Uncle Archie, as it would be detrimental to his business.”

   • 1998, Abba Eban, chapter 8, in Diplomacy for the Next Century‎^[3], New Haven: Yale University Press, page 123:

     International organization […] was here portrayed as a magic spell that would make all previous politics and diplomacy obsolete. ¶ These salvationary hopes were based on the illusion that the American-Soviet-British alliance, which had won World War II, would command the future.

Synonyms

• salvatic