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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
salvation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Salvation Army
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
personal
▪ Where I think the problem lies is that the Victorian age was one which stressed personal salvation and the individual soul.
▪ He was concerned not with reforming society but with securing his personal salvation.
▪ For believers, the essential problem was personal salvation.
■ VERB
bring
▪ They were dedicated to the task of bringing redemption and salvation to sinners before the Day of Judgement arrived.
▪ Activism by itself fails to bring salvation.
▪ But will it necessarily bring political salvation?
find
▪ I thought that he had found his salvation with me.
▪ Yet the probability is low that anyone who earns his or her living mainly from work can find salvation in stocks.
▪ In the 1980s, we thought we'd found salvation to our problems in artificial intelligence and expert systems.
▪ Neither the elite workers nor anyone else will find salvation in the new technology of the information age.
▪ She had sinned so much, could she ever find salvation?
offer
▪ They offer hope rather than salvation, consolation rather than cure, reform rather than revolution.
▪ The Internet might even offer some salvation for the radio business, which is wrecking itself with syndicated programming.
▪ In the end, it was the red notebook that offered him salvation.
▪ We who serve Him through the League of Repenters offer you redemption and salvation.
▪ And his political resurrection offers campaign salvation to Bob Dole, whose presidential candidacy Atwater helped to destroy in 1988.
seek
▪ Black must seek his salvation in the endgame.
▪ Bandaged and immobilised, disfigured in the pursuit of beauty, Messager's women seek salvation.
work
▪ You are beginning to work out your own salvation.
▪ It must and indeed is already beginning to work out its own salvation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Salvation Army
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Construction of the factory proved to be the salvation of the local economy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He'd been offered a second chance of salvation.
▪ Initially the religious innovations of Edward's reign reflected the Lutheran doctrines on salvation and the eucharist.
▪ LaLanne had added a new dimension to the diet gurus' puritanical quest for spiritual salvation through the body: exercise.
▪ Nor is there any salvation in the rake's progress of perpetual devaluation.
▪ So he had no choice but to head west again, then north toward salvation.
▪ The beasts of the field, pedigree or otherwise, were included by the Bible in the plan of salvation.
▪ We do not take all this for granted and look for salvation to come from somewhere outside the created order.
▪ What may be their salvation, in fact, are 30 species of animals who were studied for the way they live.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salvation

Salvation \Sal*va"tion\, n. [OE. salvacioun, sauvacion, F. salvation, fr. L. salvatio, fr. salvare to save. See Save.]

  1. The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.

  2. (Theol.) The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness.

    To earn salvation for the sons of men.
    --Milton.

    Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation.
    --2. Cor. vii. 10.

  3. Saving power; that which saves.

    Fear ye not; stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you to-day.
    --Ex. xiv. 13.

    Salvation Army, an organization for prosecuting the work of Christian evangelization, especially among the degraded populations of cities. It is virtually a new sect founded in London in 1861 by William Booth. The evangelists, male and female, have military titles according to rank, that of the chief being ``General.'' They wear a uniform, and in their phraseology and mode of work adopt a quasi military style.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
salvation

c.1200, originally in the Christian sense, "the saving of the soul," from Old French salvaciun and directly from Late Latin salvationem (nominative salvatio, a Church Latin translation of Greek soteria), noun of action from past participle stem of salvare "to save" (see save (v.)). In general (non-religious) sense, attested from late 14c. Meaning "source of salvation" is from late 14c. Salvation Army is from 1878, founded by the Rev. William Booth.

Wiktionary
salvation

n. 1 (context religion English) The process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell). 2 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.

WordNet
salvation
  1. n. (Christianity) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil [syn: redemption]

  2. a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness; "tourism was their economic salvation"; "they turned to individualism as their salvation"

  3. the state of being saved or preserved from harm

  4. saving someone or something from harm of from an unpleasant situation; "the salvation of his party was the president's major concern"

Wikipedia
Salvation

Salvation ( Latin salvatio; Greek sōtēria; Hebrew yasha) is being saved or protected from harm or being saved or delivered from some dire situation. In religion, salvation is stated as the saving of the soul from sin and its consequences.

The academic study of salvation is called soteriology.

Salvation (Alphaville album)

Salvation is the fifth album by Alphaville which was released in Europe in 1997, and in the U.S. in 1999 with different artwork and three bonus tracks.

Salvation (disambiguation)

Salvation is the religious concept that a Higher Power saves humanity from spiritual death or eternal damnation by providing eternal life.

Salvation may also refer to:

In religion:

  • Christian salvation
  • Collective salvation
Salvation (novel)

Salvation is a BBC Books original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the First Doctor, Dodo, and Steven.

Salvation (Cult of Luna album)

Salvation is the third full-length album by Swedish post-metal band Cult of Luna, released on Earache Records in 2004; on October 4 in Europe, and October 10 in the United States.

Salvation was critically acclaimed upon its release, with Metal Hammer awarding it 10/10, the first album to receive the accolade since Metallica's Black Album.

A music video was recorded for "Leave Me Here", directed by Anders Forsman and Linus Johansson. It premiered on April 30, 2005 on MTV2 and Fuse TV.

Salvation (Roxette song)

"Salvation", written by Per Gessle, is the fourth single from the Have a Nice Day album by the Swedish duo Roxette. The single was released in November 1999.

Salvation (The Cranberries song)

"Salvation" is the lead single for The Cranberries third studio album To the Faithful Departed. The single had some success in the US (where it was #1 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart for four weeks), it reached number 8 in the Irish charts and had success in the UK, and it showed the true colours of the new album having a darker and rawer sound than the group had previously showed.

Salvation (Byzantine video album)

Salvation is a DVD that was released April 17, 2007 from West Virginia heavy metal band Byzantine via Prosthetic Records. It was filmed, directed, and edited by Donnie Searls, owner of the production company Every Second Pictures. Shortly after release, any copy purchased straight from the band included a bonus DVD with content that wasn't able to fit on the main disc.

Salvation (Rancid song)

"Salvation" is a song by the American punk rock band Rancid. It was released as the second single from its second studio album, Let's Go.

Along with " Time Bomb" and " Ruby Soho", "Salvation" is considered to be one of Rancid's breakthrough songs, as it received airplay from modern rock radio stations, it was also the band's first single to reach any Billboard singles charts.

Salvation (Smack album)

Salvation is the Finnish rock band Smack's third studio album. It was released in 1987.

Salvation (Bill Hicks album)

Salvation is a two-disc live album by stand-up comedian and satirist Bill Hicks posthumously released in 2005 on Rykodisc. It was recorded at the Oxford Playhouse, and is an unabridged version of Shock and Awe.

Salvation (musical)

Salvation is a 1969 Off-Broadway rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Peter Link & C.C. Courtney. It opened on September 24, 1969 at the Jan Hus Playhouse and ending on April 19, 1970 after 239 performances.

Salvation (GuGabriel song)

"Salvation" is a song by Austrian singer, songwriter and musician GuGabriel. The song was released in Austria as a digital download on July 7, 2012. The song has peaked to number 19 on the Austrian Singles Chart.

Salvation (2008 film)

Salvation is a 2008 Australian film directed by Paul Cox.

Cox was inspired to make the film after seeing a televangelist on TV late at night asking for money for a facelift.

Salvation (Gabrielle Aplin song)

"Salvation" is a single by British singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin. It was released as the fifth single from her debut studio album English Rain (2013). The song was released in the United Kingdom as a digital download on 12 January 2014 through Parlophone. The song peaked to number 122 on the UK Singles Chart, the song has also peaked to number 60 in Australia. The song was featured in the second trailer to the 2015 animated movie The Little Prince.

A remix with HEYHEY was released on 12 February 2016.

Salvation (band)

Salvation was a late-1960s American rock band from San Francisco. The group started as the New Salvation Army Banned in 1967 with the lineup of Al Linde singing and Joe Tate on guitar, later supplemented by bassist Artie McLean, keyboardist Art Resnick, and drummer Teddy Stewart. The group was sometimes billed as the New Salvation Army Band and their name prompted a legal challenge from The Salvation Army church organization. They performed in San Francisco, featured as the house band at the Roaring Twenties topless club in North Beach, at shows in Golden Gate Park and at the Haight-Ashbury communal venue the Straight Theater. In 1968 they changed their name to Salvation and issued a debut album of the same name, followed later by their second album release, Gypsy Carnival Caravan, both on ABC Records. The band performed as an opening act for The Doors and Big Brother and the Holding Company before headlining in New York City at the Fillmore East in 1969. They dissolved in 1970 over financial issues.

Usage examples of "salvation".

It was naturally supposed, that the pious and humble monks, who had renounced the world to accomplish the work of their salvation, were the best qualified for the spiritual government of the Christians.

Their thought is about the means to salvation, on and by which the Lord acts in accord with the laws of His divine providence, and thus by which man is led by the Lord out of pure mercy.

The ghostly outlines of cask racks appeared along the ambulatory, and she began to see that her only hope of salvation lay in clinging to her true identity.

The doctrines of apostasy, dependence on grace for salvation, necessity of atonement, and special influence of the Holy Spirit, were all thought to be alarming doctrines.

The apostolical writers do not speak of salvation by the blood of Christ any more plainly than they do of salvation by the name of Christ, salvation by grace, and salvation by faith.

By his intolerant adversaries he is upbraided for extending, even to themselves, the hope of salvation, for asserting the blackest heresy, that every man who believes in God, and accomplishes good works, may expect in the last day a favorable sentence.

He has little desire to help his brethren by promoting the kind of assimilative culture that he simultaneously critiques and wants, and knows is his only salvation if his car, house and job title are any indication.

The incarnate Son of God is the common Saviour of all, not by a generic or specific community, such as is attributed to the nature separated from the individuals, but by a community of cause, whereby the incarnate Son of God is the universal cause of human salvation.

This Batesonian cybernetic holism, says Berman, is by far the best candidate for world salvation in the postmodern era.

As I earlier pointed out, according to Berman our salvation must be primarily bodily, sensory, and somatic in nature, and thus what we really need, in this sensory-bound, pleasure-seeking, body-gratifying culture of ours is .

This very glory which Christ, while praying, besought for Himself, pertained to the salvation of others according to Rom.

His plan of salvation was so narrow, that, like a plank in a tempestuous sea, it could avail no sinner but himself, who bestrode it triumphantly, and hurled anathemas against the wretches whom he saw struggling with the billows of eternal death.

Salvation is nothing more nor less than the harmonious blessedness of the soul by the fruition of all its right powers and relations.

He knew with what complacency and eagerness they would accept an expiatory victim whose sacrifice should be their salvation.

Brabant whose wife was very ill, and he supposing that she was about to die, after many remonstrances and exhortations for the salvation of her soul, asked her pardon, and she pardoned him all his misdeeds, excepting that he had not worked her as much as he ought to have done--as will appear more plainly in the said story.