salvational

English

Etymology

salvation + -al

Adjective

salvational (comparative more salvational, superlative most salvational)

  1. Of or pertaining to salvation.
    • 2007 January 8, Edward Rothstein, “Hitchcock, Thrilling the Ears as Well as the Eyes”, in New York Times:
      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.

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