salvable (s.xii1)

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salvable (s.xii1)

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