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Salvationist

[ sal-vey-shuh-nist ]

noun

  1. a member of the Salvation Army.
  2. (lowercase) a person who preaches salvation, deliverance from sin, etc., and the means of obtaining it; evangelist.


salvationist

/ ²õæ±ôˈ±¹±ðɪʃə²Ôɪ²õ³Ù /

noun

  1. a member of an evangelical sect emphasizing the doctrine of salvation
  2. often capital a member of the Salvation Army
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. stressing the doctrine of salvation
  2. often capital of or relating to the Salvation Army
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of Salvationist1

First recorded in 1880–85; salvation + -ist
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Example Sentences

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This popular musical, inspired by a real-life Salvationist, captures the missionaries’ zealous dedication.

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Ian Buruma, of the New York Review of Books, long a left-wing salvationist magazine, in a recent interview in the Guardian, an English newspaper, noted that “we are living in the age of Trump, and that does give publications that believe in tolerance and democracy a responsibility. How you deal with it is, of course, a big question. Just ridiculing his vulgarity isn’t going to help anybody. But you do have to keep at it.â€

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His remarkable autobiography was the memoir not of a salvationist minority leader but of a youth from a white family searching for the roots of his blackness.

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“Nay, we parted after Maiden Castle. I rode all airts until I found a hermitage, with its releegious man. Ye ken the sort, e wheen Salvationist. The first demand he made was: ‘I would wit how it standeth betwixt your God and you?’

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Church members also bought photos, although some followers were skeptical that they would prove valuable in the future, according to Mr. Yi, the Salvationist who is a spokesman for the group.

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