"salvific" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Late Latin salvificus, from Latin salvus (“saved, safe”) + facio (“make”).",
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      "form": "more salvific",
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      "form": "most salvific",
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        "superlative"
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        {
          "word": "salvifical"
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          "ref": "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 Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitābha (Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism; 17), Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawai‛i Press, →ISBN, page 77:",
          "text": "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 the invocation of his name.",
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          "text": "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 84,\nThe fragrance [of this sacrifice] is the most pleasing perfume, the most holy, the most salvific and the most beautiful; […] ."
        },
        {
          "text": "2017, Boris Jakim (translator), Pavel Florensky, Early Religious Writings, 1903-1909, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, page 149,\n[…] participation in the liturgy is more salvific than the reading of the Bible; the performance of cult is more important than charitable giving."
        },
        {
          "text": "2019, Ernest L. Gibson, Salvific Manhood, University of Nebraska Press, page 93,\nNevertheless, as this love truly begins to show itself, as the men became more salvific for each other, David pulls back."
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        "Able or intending to provide salvation or redemption."
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        "(chiefly Catholicism) Able or intending to provide salvation or redemption."
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        {
          "word": "salvative"
        }
      ],
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        "Catholicism",
        "Christianity"
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  "word": "salvific"
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      "form": "more salvific",
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    },
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      "form": "most salvific",
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