This week’s theme
Misc words

This week’s words
lentitude
virid
coterminous
salvific
hyaline

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(sal-VIF-ik)

MEANING:

adjective: Having the power to save or redeem.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin salvus (safe). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sol- (whole), which also gave us solid, salute, save, salvo, soldier, catholicity, solicitous, solicitude, salutary, and salubrious. Earliest documented use: 1591.

USAGE:

“For years I had believed that love held out the one hope of cleaning me and making me whole. Now I knew the truth. Love was just another way I’d wished in vain to be fixed. There was no salvific silver bullet.”
Corey White; Last Lines at Story Bridge; The Age (Melbourne, Australia); Jun 29, 2019.

See more usage examples of salvific in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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