salvation
salvation (săl-vāʹshən) noun
1. a. Preservation or deliverance from destruction, difficulty, or evil. b. A source, means, or cause of such preservation or deliverance.
2. Theology. a. Deliverance from the power or penalty of sin; redemption. b. The agent or means that brings about such deliverance.
3. Christian Science. The realization and demonstration of Life, Truth, and Love as supreme over all, carrying with it the destruction of the illusions of sin, sickness, and death.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin salvātiō, salvātiōn-, from salvātus past participle of salvāre, to save. See salvage.]
salvaʹtional adjective