salˈvific, a.
[ad. late L. salvific-us saving, f. salv-us: see safe a. and -fic.]
Tending to save, causing salvation.
| 1591 R. Bruce Serm. v. M 2 b, The mair that this Countrie is watered by that saluifik and heauenlie dewe. a 1660 Hammond On Hebr. xiii. 15 The sacrifice of salvifick praise. 1667 Waterhouse Fire Lond. 65 There is most use for them, when their presence is salvifique and repulsive. a 1711 Ken Christophil Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 511 To Souls born blind, their cheerful Sight, The Radiance of Salvifick Light. 1946 R. A. Knox Epistles & Gospels 223 A salvific law, promising life to Israel only, might have seemed to contravene them [sc. the promises of God]; not a purely damnific Law like that of Sinai. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Oct. 599/3 Stephen would have seen in the Crucifixion nothing ‘salvific’, but only the latest in a series of crimes committed against the prophets of the pure religion of Moses. 1967 E. R. Fairweather in Clark & Davey Anglican/R.C. Dialogue (1974) iv. 49 Anglican theology has revealed no sympathy with..any other doctrine which would minimize the reality and the salvific role of Christ's human will. 1979 J. Hick in M. Goulder Incarnation & Myth vi. 199 It is no longer acceptable..to assume the salvific uniqueness of one's own religion. |