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salvation noun [ salˈveɪʃ(ə)n ]

• preservation or deliverance from harm, ruin, or loss.
• "they try to sell it to us as economic salvation"
Similar: lifeline, preservation, conservation, means of escape,
• deliverance from sin and its consequences, believed by Christians to be brought about by faith in Christ.
• "the Christian gospel of salvation for all mankind"
Similar: redemption, deliverance, saving, help, reclamation,
Opposite: damnation, downfall, destruction,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French salvacion, from ecclesiastical Latin salvation- (from salvare ‘to save’), translating Greek sōtēria .


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