salvable (s.xii1)

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salvable (s.xii1)

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[FEW: 11,129b salvare; Gdf: 7,297b salvable; GdfC: ; TL: 9,230 sauvable; DEAF:  sauver (sauvable); DMF:  salvable / sauvable; TLF:  sauver; OED:  salvable adj.1 / savable adj. and n.; MED:  savable adj.; DMLBS: 2919c salvabilis]
saluable, sauvable,  saluwable ii 25  

The word can be read as either saluable or salvable. The trisyllabic form is generally found more frequently in verse texts.

a.

1helpful, beneficial, salubrious
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Les bainz fist chauz e saluables  1637
( 1184; MS: s.xiiiex )  Il vit sun cunseil salvable, Si envead gent aidable En cel bosoing  1450
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  aver A ses mals cure saluable  7769
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  la celestiau doctrine, Qui tant ert douce e salvable  2057
( MS: s.xiii-xiv )  saluable: saluber  ii 16
2med.curable, able to be healed
( s.xiii2/3; MS: s.xiii2 )  cuintes serra et amiables li enfaunt et li mal salvables, mes li malades ert turmenté  356
theol.saving, redeeming, offering salvation
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Senz murmuire oint humlement Lor salvable amonestement  10632
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  [...] del singne de la croiz salvable  8693
( 1376-77 )  peticions [...] a les leies de Seinte Esglise accordantz et a voz almes salvables  ii 373
3salutary, profitable
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiiex )  Coral est mut sauvable a celi ki la porte  130.xx.4
( 1298 )  mettre plus covenable, hastif et sauvable remedie  i 94
( 1383-84 )  [...] tan qe bone et salvable accorde se purroit tailler entre les ditz parties  iii 183
4protective
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Cil s'afie el non al Seignor, E cort come a salvable tor tower  10840
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  car nule rien n'est trové en bataille si covenable ne si sauvable chose com est garnison  25.15

s.

1theol.salvation, redemption
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Kar il ne creirent en Deu, nen espererent el salvable de lui (Latin: nec speraverunt in salutare eius)  88.77.26
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Jeo acertes en la tue misericorde me afi, esleecat li miens quers en tuen salvable (Latin: exultavit) cor meum in salutari tuo  17.XII.5
( s.xii2; MS: 1200 )  Et si nus dune le toen salvable Jhesum, ki sonet en latin saluble  195.171
salf  salvablement  salvacion  salvamunda  salvance  salvatelle  salvegarde  salvegarder  salveisun  salvement#1  salvement#2  salveour  salver#1  salveresse  salveté  sauvenape  sauvernaperoun 
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