Salvational

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to salvation.

    "And it is that composer’s song (which prevents a suicide) that provides the sole salvational counterpoint to another plot, in which a neighbor murders and dismembers his wife, which Jimmy Stewart discerns from his rear window."

Example

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"And it is that composer’s song (which prevents a suicide) that provides the sole salvational counterpoint to another plot, in which a neighbor murders and dismembers his wife, which Jimmy Stewart discerns from his rear window."

Etymology

From salvation + -al.

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