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▪ I. salvable, a.1|ˈsælvəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. *salvābilis, f. salvāre to save: see -able.]
1. Theol. Capable of being saved, admitting of salvation.
1667Decay Chr. Piety viii. ⁋6. 167 Our wild Phancies about Gods Decrees have in event reprobated more than those Decrees,..and have bid fair to the damning of many, whom those left salvable. 1734Wesley Wks. (1872) XII. 50 He is not in a salvable state. 1839Bailey Festus xxiii. (1848) 294 If God be Love, Or man a being salvable. 1888G. Macdonald Elect Lady 253 It was enough to be a Christian like other good and salvable Christians.
2. Of a ship, cargo, etc.: That can be salved or salvaged.
1797S. James Narr. Voy. 130 The adventurers could not find anything that was salvable. 1892Standard 30 Mar. 5/1 The vessel was in a salvable condition. 1905Westm. Gaz. 21 Jan. 7/1 A number of the ships were possibly salvable.
Hence ˈsalvableness; ˈsalvably adv. rare—0.
1727Bailey vol. II, Salvableness, capableness of being saved. 1847–54Webster, Salvably, in a salvable manner.
▪ II. † ˈsalvable, a.2 Obs.
[f. salve v.2 + -able.]
1. Of a diffculty, doubt, etc.: That can be met, explained or cleared up (see salve v.2 2).
1661Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 88 We sometimes read him to have Answer'd, without being ask'd the Question (though that be otherwise salvable by a Critick). 1675Evelyn Terra (1676) 112 Admitting this [doubt] to be salvable.
2. Of ‘phenomena’: see salve v.2 1.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 691 The Phænomena of Nature being no way Salvable, nor the Causes of things Assigneable, without a Deity. |