(chiefly Catholicism) Able or intending to provide salvation or redemption.
2012, Magdalen Ross (translator), Athanasius Schneider, 7: Adoration and the Sacred Liturgy, Alcuin Reid (editor), From Eucharistic Adoration to Evangelization, Continuum Books (Burns & Oates), page 84,
The fragrance [of this sacrifice] is the most pleasing perfume, the most holy, the most salvific and the most beautiful; […] .
2017, Boris Jakim (translator), Pavel Florensky, Early Religious Writings, 1903-1909, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, page 149,
[…] participation in the liturgy is more salvific than the reading of the Bible; the performance of cult is more important than charitable giving.
2019, Ernest L. Gibson, Salvific Manhood, University of Nebraska Press, page 93,
Nevertheless, as this love truly begins to show itself, as the men became more salvific for each other, David pulls back.
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