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Salvio(u)r, Saviour, -eour, n. Also: salvioure, -yo(u)r, -eour(e, salweour, salwyoure; sawieour, saweour(e, sawwyoure. [ME and e.m.E. sauueor (Cursor M.), saviour (14th c.), saveour (Piers Plowman), OF salvaire subj., salvedur oblique (c1120), salveür (c1138), -eor (c1170), sauveor (c1175), sauveur (13th c.) (all in Larousse), f. late L. salvātor Salvato(u)r n. Cf. Save v. and Savar n.] The Saviour; God or, chiefly, Christ as the deliverer of mankind from sin and its consequences.Freq. with objective possessive, chiefly our (also my, etc.), salviour.(1) c1420 Wynt. v 4837 (C).
Symeon met his Salwyoure, His bade, his beylde and his succoure 1456 Hay II 70/11.
At the reverence … of Almychty God, oure gloriouse salvioure and of his … moder [etc.] a1500 Lanc. 2094.
Salweour [: flour] a1500 Seven S. 2456.
Schir, said scho, be [= by] our saluiour [etc.] a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 1025 (Asl.). a1500 Coll. St. Salvator 159. c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 18/92 (see Salvato(u)r n. (1)). 1513 Doug. ii Prol. 470.
That prynce, … our Saluyour Jhesus c1520-c1535 Nisbet I 114 marg.
Saluior a1538 Abell 8*b. 1551 Hamilton Cat. 284.
Ordur of owr saluyor or Brigitta begutht Arundel MS 283/149. 1558 Q. Kennedy Tractive 157.
The reale presens of the blude and body of oure Salveour Id. Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 163/15.
Salueoure Ib. 163/11. 1562-3 Winȝet I 21/21. c1590 Fowler II 57/23.
That they beleuit in our Saluiour crucefyit 1582 Bk. Carlaverock II 492.
Besekand him, for … my Saluiouris saik 1595 Melville Chart. 139.
My saull repoissis in my merciefull God … throuch Chryst … my onlie Saluiour 1596 Dalr. I 266/3.
To Christe … as to his Author and Saluiour a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI (1825) 354.
The great ennemie to our Salviour Christ 1622-6 Bisset II 342/2.
The brychtnes of our salviouris face Ib. 353/19.
Unto Jesus oure salvioure(b) a1400 Leg. S. xxxi 889.
For I ame God, thi saweoure c1420 Wynt. iv Prol. 40.
Cryst wes borne oure Sawwyoure [W. saluiour, C. salwyoure] 1567 G. Ball. 51.
Ane gracious Virgin mother is, To God hir Sauiour Ib. 57.
Our Sauiour and Gouernour Is Christ Ib. 147. a1578 Pitsc. I 350/5.
Our maister and sawieour Jesus Christ c1600 Montg. Suppl. xxix 54. 1600 Hamilton Facile Tr. 236.
Our Saueour sayes [etc.](2) a1450 Fifteen Ois 67.
I pray thé, Jesu saluiour [etc.] a1500 Henr. Fab. 2974.
Now Christ for vs that deit on the rude Of saull and lyfe as thow art Saluiour c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 21/1.
Salviour, suppois my sensualitie Subject to syn hes maid my saule of sys Ib. 15/1. a1570-86 Maitl. F. 199/83.
With God and man and saluiour(b) a1400 Leg. S. i 674.
And Petir till hym [sc. Paul] this can say … ‘far wele ay … Ledar of heile and saweoure!' Ib. xi 20.
Blyssit saweour that cumys now Into Jerusaleme Ib. xviii 20.
Nothire stekis fra Goddis mercy … the latnes of the houre, Sa that to the saweoure Be knawyne [etc.] 1567 G. Ball. 73.
The cumming of greit God of gloir, … The Sauiour of les and moir 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 350.
I bemoan them not who can make a din and all the fields ado for a lost Saviour