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salˈvationist, n. (and a.)
[-ist.]
1. With capital initial. A member of the Salvation Army.
1882Standard 17 Jan., As the ‘Salvationists’ started on their ‘triumphant march’,..they were pelted with mud and brickbats. 1892Guardian 13 Jan. 33/2 The Eastbourne Salvationists seem to believe that they serve their cause by making Sunday hideous.
2. One who rescues from peril; a saviour.
1971Daily Tel. 4 May 14 Our great wartime leader, and I think salvationist, Sir Winston Churchill.
3. attrib. or as adj.
1934Webster, Salvationist, n. & adj. 1943J. S. Huxley Evolutionary Ethics vii. 56 What I may call salvationist ethics, aimed at achieving salvation in a supernatural other life. 1959A. F. Wright Buddhism in Chinese Hist. iv. 81 Salvationist Buddhism..is neither an anomaly nor a temporary aberration of an otherwise ‘rational’ people. |