salvific
/sælˈvɪf.ɪk/
salvific adjective: able or intending to provide salvation or redemption.
Adjective
salvific (comparative more salvific, superlative most salvific)
- Able or intending to provide salvation or redemption.
- Less well recognized, however, is the central role played in much of early medieval Pure Land Buddhism by deathbed practices and accompanying beliefs about the radical salvific power of one's last nenbutsu, whether understood as the contemplation of the Buddha Amitābha (or Amitāyus, Jpn. Amida) or...2004, Jacqueline I. Stone, “By the Power of One's Last Nenbutsu: Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan”, in Richard K[arl] Payne, Kenneth K[en'ichi] Tanaka, editors, Approaching the Land of...
- The fragrance [of this sacrifice] is the most pleasing perfume, the most holy, the most salvific and the most beautiful; […] .2012, Magdalen Ross (translator), Athanasius Schneider, 7: Adoration and the Sacred Liturgy, Alcuin Reid (editor), From Eucharistic Adoration to Evangelization, Continuum Books (Burns & Oates), page...
- Synonyms:
- salvative
Synonyms of salvific
Forms of salvific
| comparative | more salvific |
|---|---|
| superlative | most salvific |
Origin of salvific
From Late Latin salvificus, from Latin salvus (“saved, safe”) + facio (“make”).
Words formed from salvific
Words that rhyme with salvific
- specific
- prolific
- calorific
- colorific
- hieroglyphic
- honorific
- scientific
- terrific
- -ific
- biospecific
- calcific
- dolorific
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- febrific
- interspecific
- morbific
- organific
- pacific
- signific
- soporific
- sudorific
- triglyphic
- trispecific
- unterrific
- vaporific
- acidific
- algific
- allospecific
- anaglyphic
- anticalcific
- antiprolific
- aspecific
- aurific
- bioscientific
- bispecific
- carbonific
- chylific
- classific
- coelanaglyphic
- conspecific
- cornific
- cospecific
- crapperific
- damnific
- deific
- diaglyphic
- ditriglyphic
- frigorific
- geoglyphic
- grandific
- hipsterific
- horrific
- humilific
- inspecific
- lactific
- lapidific
- lithoglyphic
- lucific
- lucrific
- mirific
- nanospecific
Questions about salvific
- What does salvific mean?
- Salvific means able or intending to provide salvation or redemption.
- What part of speech is salvific?
- Salvific is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce salvific?
- Salvific is pronounced /sælˈvɪf.ɪk/.
Words near salvific in the dictionary
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