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saviour noun [ ˈseɪvjə ]

• a person who saves someone or something from danger or difficulty.
• "politicians of the era usually portray themselves as the nation's saviours"
Similar: rescuer, liberator, deliverer, emancipator, champion, knight in shining armour, friend in need, Good Samaritan, salvation,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French sauveour, from ecclesiastical Latin salvator (translating Greek sōtēr ), from late Latin salvare ‘to save’.


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