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salvable (s.xii1)

The form saluable is a cross reference to the following entry:

salvable (s.xii1)

saluable, sauvable  (saluwable TLL ii 25)  
  FEW:  salvare 11,129b Gdf:  salvable 7,297b GdfC: TL: sauvable 9,230 DEAF:  sauver (sauvable)  DMF:  salvable  / sauvable  TLF:  sauver  OED:  salvable adj.1  / savable adj. and n.  MED:  savable adj.  DMLBS:  salvabilis 2919c

The word can be read as either saluable or salvable. The trisyllabic form is generally found more frequently in verse texts.

a.

1helpful, beneficial, salubrious
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Les bainz fist chauz e saluables  Brut WACE 1637
( 1184; MS: s.xiiiex )  Il vit sun cunseil salvable, Si envead gent aidable En cel bosoing  S Thom beneit1 1450
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  aver A ses mals cure saluable  Dial Greg SATF 7769
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  la celestiau doctrine, Qui tant ert douce e salvable  S Greg 2057
( MS: s.xiii-xiv )  saluable: saluber  TLL ii 16
2med.curable, able to be healed
( s.xiii2/3; MS: s.xiii2 )  cuintes serra et amiables li enfaunt et li mal salvables, mes li malades ert turmenté  Calendar 356
theol.saving, redeeming, offering salvation
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Senz murmuire oint humlement Lor salvable amonestement  Salemon 10632
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  [...] del singne de la croiz salvable  Dial Greg SATF 8693
( 1376-77 )  peticions [...] a les leies de Seinte Esglise accordantz et a voz almes salvables  Rot Parl1 ii 373
3salutary, profitable
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiiex )  (Coral) est mut sauvable a celi ki la porte  Lapid 130.xx.4
( 1298 )  mettre plus covenable, hastif et sauvable remedie  Treaty Rolls i 94
( 1383-84 )  [...] tan qe bone et salvable accorde se purroit tailler entre les ditz parties  Rot Parl1 iii 183
4protective
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Cil s'afie el non al Seignor, E cort come a salvable tor (tower)  Salemon 10840
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  car nule rien n'est trové en bataille si covenable ne si sauvable chose com est garnison  vegetius2 25.15

s.

theol.salvation, redemption
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Kar il ne creirent en Deu, nen espererent el salvable de lui (Latin: nec speraverunt in salutare eius)  Oxf Ps ANTS 88.77.26
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Jeo acertes en la tue misericorde me afi, esleecat li miens quers en tuen salvable (Latin: exultavit) cor meum in salutari tuo  Camb Ps 17.XII.5
( s.xii2; MS: 1200 )  Et si nus dune le toen salvable Jhesum, ki sonet en latin saluble  Psalter Comment 195.171

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See also:

salf  salvablement  salvacion  salvamunda  salvance  salvatelle  salvegarde  salvegarder  salveisun  salvement1  salvement2  salveour  salver1  salveresse  salveté  sauvenape  sauvernaperoun 
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