savacioun
Middle English
Alternative forms
- salvacion, salvacioun, salvacyon, salvacyoun, salvation, sauvacioun, savacion, savacon, savacoun, savacyon, sawacyon
- (early) salvaciun, salvatiun, sauvaciun
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French salvacion, sauvacion, from Late Latin salvātiō, salvātiōnem; equivalent to saven + -acioun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa(l)ˌvaːsiˈuːn/, /sa(l)ˈvaːsjun/
Noun
savacioun (uncountable)
- Security; the act of making or state of being protected.
- Synonym: savete
- Religious salvation; deliverance from eternal doom.
- Synonym: savete
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, folio xxxix, verso, lines 621-623, column 1:
- Foꝛ God ſo wyſely be my ſaluation / I loued neuer by no dyſcretion / But euer folowed myne appetite
- Because God will be my salvation, / I never loved with any discretion, / but always obeyed my appetites.
- An individual who acts as security or salvation.
- Preservation, maintenance, or that which ensures it.
- (rare) Deliverance from or remediation of a wrong.
- (medicine, rare) Medical remediation; the restoration of health.
Descendants
- English: salvation
- Scots: salvation
References
- “savāciǒun̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.