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Salvation vs Salvational - What's the difference?

salvation | salvational |

As a noun salvation

is the process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell).

As an adjective salvational is

of or pertaining to salvation.

salvation

English

Alternative forms

* salvatioun (obsolete)

Noun

  • (religion) The process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell).
    • In Islam, salvation is achieved by praying in the mosque to Allah and following the sunnah of Muhammad.
  • The process of being restored or made new for the purpose of becoming saved; the process of being rid of the old poor quality conditions and becoming improved.

    • Antonyms

    * (in religion) damnation

    Related terms

    * salvage

    salvational

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to salvation.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 8, author=Edward Rothstein, title=Hitchcock, Thrilling the Ears as Well as the Eyes, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=And it is that composer’s song (which prevents a suicide) that provides the sole salvational counterpoint to another plot, in which a neighbor murders and dismembers his wife, which Jimmy Stewart discerns from his rear window. }}

    Derived terms

    * salvationally

    Synonyms

    * salvatory