Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a saving or sparing manner; with frugality or parsimony.
- So as to secure salvation or be finally saved from spiritual death: as, savingly converted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony.
- adverb So as to be finally saved from eternal death.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb So as to
save ; withfrugality orparsimony . - adverb religion So as to be finally saved from
eternal death .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But benevolence is also the objective basis of a dispositional property, namely, a tendency to produce a new simple idea in the savingly converted.
Jonathan Edwards Wainwright, William 2009
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Would he bridle his desires, live savingly, and write assiduously till such repute came as would enable him to launch out and indulge his tastes?
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Plus, with a dual-monitor setup, the ability to drag a tab from an open Chrome on one monitor to the other one is just … well, life-savingly simple. reply
Google’s Chrome Browser Is Now 30 Million Users Strong Erick Schonfeld 2005
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A theologically educated person is someone who is reading the world, I've said, in the context of the narratives that have brought God alive, savingly and transformingly.
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When once their hearts are savingly affected with the doctrine which they study and preach, they will study it more heartily, and preach it more heartily: their own experience will direct them to the fittest subjects, and will furnish them with matter, and quicken them to set it home. to the conscience of their hearers.
The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974
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That's for personnel and planets, the anonymous billions -- and, savingly, for you and me, eh,
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974
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It may he some, it may be many, such there are who are not truly and savingly interested in that condition.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Spirit may be said to give the knowledge of the worship of God in the word unto believers; and that because it is not, nor can be, profitably and savingly attained any other way.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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It is sad with the church of God when her teachers are removed into a corner, and her eyes see them not; but better lose all other teachers, and that utterly, than to lose this great Teacher only: for although he is pleased to make use of them, he can teach effectually and savingly without them where they are removed and taken away; but they cannot teach without him unto the least spiritual advantage.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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The grace, therefore, here asserted in the giving of an understanding is the causing of our natural understandings to understand savingly.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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