savacioun

Middle English

Alternative forms

• salvacion, salvacioun, salvacyon, salvacyoun, salvation, sauvacioun, savacion, savacon, savacoun, savacyon, sawacyon
• (early) salvaciun, salvatiun, sauvaciun

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French salvacion, sauvacion, from Late Latin salvātiō, salvātiōnem; equivalent to saven ‎ -acioun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa(l)ˌvaːsiˈuːn/, /sa(l)ˈvaːsjun/

Noun

savacioun (uncountable)

1. Security; the act of making or state of being protected.

   Synonym: savete

2. Religious salvation; deliverance from eternal doom.

   Synonym: savete

   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xxxix, verso, column 1, lines 621-623:

     Foꝛ God ſo wyſely be my ſaluation / I loued neuer by no dyſcretion / But euer folowed myne appetite

     Because God will be my salvation, / I never loved with any discretion, / but always obeyed my appetites.

3. An individual who acts as security or salvation.
4. Preservation, maintenance, or that which ensures it.
5. (rare) Deliverance from or remediation of a wrong.
6. (medicine, rare) Medical remediation; the restoration of health.

Descendants

• English: salvation
• Scots: salvation

References

• “savāciǒun̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.