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- noun Plural form of
saviour .
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Examples
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The trouble is, people seem to require 'saviours' - just look at the movement to 'draft' Al Gore, who is a millionaire, and if elected would probably give the people a palliative to quieten them down and business would proceed just as before.
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Greater ones, verily, have there been, and higher-born ones, than those whom the people call saviours, those rapturous blusterers!
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Also the biggest war crime country in the middle east continues to wreak havoc in Palestine without hindrance from these so called saviours of downtrodden nations.
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In Grecian mythology it was taught and believed that Hercules, the Theban, was born of a human mother and an immortal father, like other so-called saviours of mankind.
The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788
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This doctrine makes men their own saviours, which is most absurd to hold, for can the obedience of a finite creature satisfy for an infinite offence?
The Lord's Prayer 1692
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I don't think there was any connotation that the Spaniards would be their "saviours".
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It must be noted that in these experiences, the idea most strongly felt was the one of the "power and presence of God," and we are impressed with the fact that, no matter how varied may be the _creeds_ of the world, as founded by "saviours" and incarnations of God, there is a unity among all races, as to the fact of a one supreme universal power, which is Aum, the
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The heathenish "saviours" are said to perform cures which defy every human medical science; but when they apply to these divine deeds the genuinely human means of medicine, magic, and incantations, ceremonial washings, etc., this, too, is an inconsistency which allows us to see how the whole picture comes from the view of those who designed it.
The Miracles of Jesus 1872-1959 1907
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The apostles of "democratic values" and the "saviours" of Afghan women are soldiers in an army that contracts out torture and which covers up sexual crimes throughout its hierarchy, ostensibly in order to keep the sexual aggressors active abroad (bill S-3).
Progressive Bloggers 2010
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Thus the deified ones were then called 'saviours' and looked upon as gods.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010
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