Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where things are preserved; a repository; a safe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A place where things are preserved; a repository.
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- noun A place where things are
preserved ; arepository .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But I think my story is, at least for women in - who are of my age bracket and younger, I think my story is salvatory in the fact that prevented - prevention is really the best cure.
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I simply tried to explain, and not in a salvatory way, some of the origins of his behavior.
'Jews and Geniuses': An Exchange Taruskin, Richard F. 1989
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There are more poetic locks of hair, it must be said; -- the keepsake of two lovers; the lock of Keats's hair, too sacred to touch, lying in its precious salvatory.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various
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An 'it's a maxim that whin the ind is salvatory, the manes are justified.
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Yes, but, supposing it will be as expensive as the war, for which of the two do you prefer to give money -- for such a salvatory experiment or for the war?
The New Ideal in Education Nikolai Velimirovi�� 1918
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Another problem was: what were more salvatory, faith or works?
The Agony of the Church (1917) Nikolai Velimirovi�� 1918
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The great round earth, the sun, the moon and all the stars that flame like fireflies in the silken web of night were his, because garnered in the salvatory of his soul.
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And so they are said to be the salt of the earth; but if none feel their salvatory influence, wherein is the fleshly mass of humanity the better for their existence?
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The understanding that was deaf vibrates with joy in response to the call of a salvatory science.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 Various 1888
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We have seen a large number of fillings which were not blackened, yet were saving the teeth perfectly, thus proving to a certainty that blackening of tin in the tooth-cavity is not absolutely essential in order to obtain its salvatory effects as a filling-material.
Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth Henry Lovejoy Ambler 1883
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