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/sælˈvɪf.ɪk/ · adjective
(chiefly Catholicism) Able or intending to provide salvation or redemption..
2012, Magdalen Ross (translator), Athanasius Schneider, 7: Adoration and the Sacred Liturgy, Alcuin Reid (editor), From Eucharistic Adoration to Evangelization, Continuum Books (Burns & Oates), page 84, The fragrance [of this sacrifice] is the most pleasing perfume, the most holy, the most salvific and the most beautiful; […] .
2019, Ernest L. Gibson, Salvific Manhood, University of Nebraska Press, page 93, Nevertheless, as this love truly begins to show itself, as the men became more salvific for each other, David pulls back.
Less well recognized, however, is the central role played in much of early medieval Pure Land Buddhism by deathbed practices and accompanying beliefs about the radical salvific power of one's last nenbutsu, whether understood as the contemplation of the Buddha Amitābha (or Amitāyus, Jpn. Amida) or the invocation of his name.
[…]participation in the liturgy is more salvific than the reading of the Bible; the performance of cult is more important than charitable giving.
Use salvific when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Salvific means (chiefly Catholicism) Able or intending to provide salvation or redemption..
Common synonyms include salvative.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
2012, Magdalen Ross (translator), Athanasius Schneider, 7: Adoration and the Sacred Liturgy, Alcuin Reid (editor), From Eucharistic Adoration to Evangelization, Continuum Books (Burns & Oates), page 84, The fragrance [of this sacrifice] is the most pleasing perfume, the most holy, the most salvific and the most beautiful; […] .
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