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Salvato(u)r, n. Also: -oure, -ore, -ur(e, salvitour. [ME and e.m.E. salvatour (a1400), 18th c. Eng. salvator (1707), late L. salvātor, agent-n. f. salvāre Save v.]In verse appar. always with the primary stress on the initial syllable.

The Saviour = Salvio(u)r n.Also Sanct Salvatour, generally and in the name of the College of the University of St. Andrews.(1) c1450-2 Howlat 473 (A).
Our saluatouris sepulture c1453–4 Coll. St. Salvator 159.
A pes off the tre of the cros that our Saluator wes crucifyit on 1456 Hay I 20/13.
That oure salvatour Jhesu Crist had … ma willis than ane 1490 Irland Mir. I 81/17.
Saluatoure Ib. 83/2.
Saluatore Id. Asl. MS 3/3.
To trast in God thair makar and saluatour a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 1381.
Off all the warld the generall saluitour c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 10/104.
Thy blissit salvatour Jesu Ib. 18/92 (M).
Off ressayt synfull of thé my saluitour [v.rr. saluature, salviour; rh. nature, sure, pure] c1520-c1535 Nisbet John iv 42.
That this is verralie the saluatour [W., P. sauyour] of the warld 1533 Boece 102. 1540 Acts II 370/1.
Moder of oure blissit saluatour Crist Jesu c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus iii 860. a1568 Bann. MS I p. 18/47.
Ȝour saluatour seing in the face(2) 1490 Irland Mir. I 160/2.
The saluatour c1500 Coll. St. Salvator 160.
Ane ymage of the Saluator c1520-c1535 Nisbet Philipp. iii 20.
Bot oure leving is in heuenis; fra quhyne alsa we abide the saluatour oure Lord Jesu Crist Id. Acts v 31.
This prince and saluatour c1559 Innes Rev. XVI 128.
Apud C.V.M. sex chalicis of the best [? blest] Saluatour with his Agnus Dei(3) a1568 Bann. MS 34a/63.
My saule with sanctis sueit saluatur ressaif(4) 1450 Coll. St. Salvator 52.
Quasquidem terras supradictas … Collegio Sancti Salvatoris per ipsum dominum Jacobum Episcopum Sanctiandrei … fundando mortificavit Ib. 55.
Collegium … in honorem Sancti Salvatoris c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 19/1.
Sanct Salvatour send silver sorrow c1559 Innes Rev. XVI 129.
The tyistar with the figure of sanct saluatour 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 44.
The haly Doctour Cranstoun depertit to him largelie of the spoyle of Sanct Saluatouris College(5) a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 834.
Jesu in oure leid is callit saluitour