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   salvation

   /salˈveɪʃn/

   noun

   • 1. preservation or deliverance from harm, ruin, or loss: "they try to sell it to us as economic salvation" Similar lifelinepreservationconservationmeans of escape
   • ▪ a source or means of being saved from harm, ruin, or loss: "his only salvation was to outfly the enemy"
   • 2. 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 redemptiondeliverancesavinghelpreclamationOpposite damnationdownfalldestruction

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French salvacion, from ecclesiastical Latin salvation- (from salvare ‘to save’), translating Greek sōtēria.

   Scrabble Points: 12

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