salvific
adjective
sal·vif·ic
sal-ˈvi-fik 
: having the intent or power to save or redeem
… the salvific life and death of Christ …—
E. A. Walsh
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Indeed, neither approach is entirely salvific.
—Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
That melody is taken up by a ghostly female choir (mirrored by flute) in this story full of ghosts both malevolent and salvific.
—Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
But Whitehead literalized the metaphor, and Jenkins corroborates that pomposity, neglecting black spirituality, blunting any poetic, salvific beauty of liberation.
—Armond White, National Review, 12 May 2021
By depicting this historical atrocity and recasting it within a salvific Black narrative, with Black heroes ready to fight, these stories offer a way, much like the blues, to transcend pain not by evading it but by making it into art.
—New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
Yet those salvific moves haven’t eased the ethnic tension, economic challenges, and institutional corruption that has bedeviled the nation.
—Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa, 24 June 2019
That meaning gained will remain for the living to have, and can be salvific.
—John Crowley, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
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Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
That melody is taken up by a ghostly female choir (mirrored by flute) in this story full of ghosts both malevolent and salvific.
—Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
But Whitehead literalized the metaphor, and Jenkins corroborates that pomposity, neglecting black spirituality, blunting any poetic, salvific beauty of liberation.
—Armond White, National Review, 12 May 2021
By depicting this historical atrocity and recasting it within a salvific Black narrative, with Black heroes ready to fight, these stories offer a way, much like the blues, to transcend pain not by evading it but by making it into art.
—New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
Yet those salvific moves haven’t eased the ethnic tension, economic challenges, and institutional corruption that has bedeviled the nation.
—Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa, 24 June 2019
That meaning gained will remain for the living to have, and can be salvific.
—John Crowley, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
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“Salvific.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salvific. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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