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/sˈeɪvjər/ Listen

noun

Savior n. (Written also saviour)

One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.

Specifically: The (or our, your, etc.) Savior, he who brings salvation to men; Jesus Christ, the Redeemer.

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Etymology of 'Savior'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Savior" Quotes from Famous Books

... to name: Through Christendome and Heathynesse Well known is my worthy fame. In Jesus Christ I doe beleeve; I am a Christyan born: The Father, Sone and Holy Gost One God I doe adore. In the four hundreed nintieth yeere Over Brittaine I did rayne, After my Savior Christ his byrth: What time I did maintaine. The fellowshippe of the table round Soe famous in those days; Whereatt a hundred noble Knights And thirty sat alwayes; Who for their deeds and martiall feates, As bookes dou yet record, Amongst all other nations ...

— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 • Various

... motive had impelled the Jews, the Aati-Ietu, to kill Ieto Kirito the Savior of the world. They discussed the strange madness that had possessed Iuda Iskalota, that he had first bought land with his forty pieces of silver and then hanged himself to a purau tree. Was it cocoanut land? they asked. Was it ...

— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien

... if he would only restore the Southern State government as quickly as possible according to his own plan as laid down in the North Carolina proclamation, and that he was a great man to whom they looked up as their savior. It was now thought that Mr. Johnson, the plebeian who before the war had been treated with undisguised contempt by the slaveholding aristocracy, could not withstand the subtle flattery of the same aristocracy when they flocked around him as ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 • Various

... and sing the song Of Moses and the Lamb; Join every heart and every tongue To praise the Savior's name. ...

— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth

... believed, by Episcopalians, that the Savior, when upon earth, established a Church, or Society, of which He was the Ruler and Head, and with which He promised to be, till the end of the world. They believe, that, during the forty days in which He remained upon earth, after His resurrection, "speaking" to His disciples "of the things ...

— The Book of Religions • John Hayward

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