Middle English Dictionary Entry
sāvement n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sāvement n. Also sauvement. |
| Etymology | OF sauvement, savement. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The state of being safe, safety; (b) a state of spiritual salvation; deliverance from sin and damnation, redemption; also, one who brings salvation, a savior [last quot.].
Associated quotations
a
- c1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)3840 : God! what Gij is noble baroun! Iesu..Saue him fram cumberment & him oȝain bring in sauement.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)940 : Þo wern Loth and his lef, his luflyche deȝter, Þer soȝt no mo to savement of cities aþel fyve.
b
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)2/34 : Ydemyd we beþe In Adam and in Eue..Te telle [read: helle]: Waȝt hope his here of sauuement Now time his for to telle.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)147/507 : Þer þat god wyle grace ȝyue Euer to libbe..Ine sauement.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)15.545 : Loke that ȝe taken Of him ȝoure saviour..So that..ȝe him han to-forn ȝowre fase, To Resceiuen ȝoure euere-lasting savement.
- a1450 12 PTrib.(3) (Bod 423)114/1 : If thou will mynge the to thilke God in whos bithenkyng thy sauement [F sauuemenz] lith and in whos foryetyng thy dampnacion lith, [etc.].
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)39/29 : Thus Bernarde declared the foly and the pompe of the worlde to his suster, And also the sauement of her soule.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)117/26 : Yong women..shulde be putte vnto scole to lerne vertuous thinges of the scripture, wherethorugh thei may the beter see and knowe thaire sauuement.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)151/33 : Symeon..saide with high voys, 'Lo! here the clere light and the sauement of the worlde.'