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- noun chiefly UK Alternative spelling of
Savior .
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Examples
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M. Dupuis has satisfactorily shown in The History of all Religions that the twelve labors of the god and saviour Hercules were astronomical allegories -- the history of the passage of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac -- and these labors are so similar to the sufferings of Jesus, that the Rev.M.. Parkhurst has been obliged, much against his inclination, to acknowledge that they "were types of what the real Saviour was to do and suffer."
The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788
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Yes, yes our Saviour is the one to trust in, to confide in, and he will lighten our burdens, having borne far greater ones for our sake he knows how to sympathise with us from experience.
Letter from Mary Houston to Young John Allen,September 14, 1855 2008
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I think then we shall see everything in its true proportions; but till then we must walk by faith and not by sight, – faith that God loves us, faith that our Saviour is always near us, and that all things are working together for good.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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The comfort and joy of Christians are that their Saviour is the great God, and will gloriously manifest himself at his second coming.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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The example of their Saviour is another argument for brotherly love:
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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This our Saviour is here pressing us to, by reminding us that we are but stewards of the manifold grace of God; and since we have in divers instances been unfaithful, and have forfeited the favour of our Lord, it is our wisdom to think how we may, some other way, make what we have in the world turn to a good account.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Red Saviour is a beautiful, glamorous newly in favour superhuman in Russia.
Archive 2007-10-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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Red Saviour is a beautiful, glamorous newly in favour superhuman in Russia.
Archive 2007-04-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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Red Saviour is a beautiful, glamorous newly in favour superhuman in Russia.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Secret World Chronicle - Invasion 16 Blood In Red Square 1 Blue Tyson 2007
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The Basilica of Our Saviour is usually called St. John Lateran and it is this church whose dedication is celebrated today in the Pauline rite and in the traditional Roman rite.
11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003 John 2003
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