salvation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation

   The salvation of the party was the president's major concern.

2. 2
   noun

   a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness

   tourism was their economic salvation

3. 3
   noun

   The process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell).

   Collective salvation is not possible without personal salvation, but the latter is achievable.

4. 4
   noun

   The act of saving, rescuing (in any context), providing needed safety or liberation; something that does this.

   Though this is not meant as a medical advice, smoking grass was an occasional salvation; it reduced the nausea, raised my spirits and even gave me a small appetite.

5. 5
   noun

   The process of being restored or made new for the purpose of becoming saved; the process of being rid of the old poor quality conditions and becoming improved.

   If the Government believes that part of the railways' salvation is to be found in ridding them of extraneous concerns, it should have had the courage either to close the railway works down as quickly as possible, or to hive them off as an entirely separate concern, [...].

6. 6
   noun

   (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil

7. 7
   noun

   the state of being saved or preserved from harm

8. 8
   verb

   To save, in the religious sense; to bring to salvation.

Etymology

From Middle English savacioun, from Old French savaciun, salvaciun, from Latin salvātiō. Displaced native Old English hǣlu.