savingness (savingnes)

1. The quality of being saving or sparing; frugality; parsimony.-2. Tendency to promote spiritual safety or eternal salvation. The safety and savingne which it promiseth. Brevint , Saul and Samuel at Endor, Pref., p. v. savings-bank (sā'vingz-bangk), n . An institution for the encouragement of the practice of saving money among people of slender means, and for the secure investment of savings, managed by persons having no interest in the profits of the busine , the profits being credited or paid as interest to the depositors at certain intervals, as every month (in Great Britain), or every three or six months (as in the United States). - Post-office savings-bank. See post - office . savior, saviour (sa'vior), n. [ save our , saveoure , savyor , savyour , savyoure , savyowre , save or , sauveor , sauveour , salve or , F. sauveur = Pr. salvador = Sp. Pg. salvador = It. salva tore, salvator , a saver, preserver (first and chiefly with ref. to Christ, as a translation of the Gr. σωτήρ , saviour, and the equiv. Ἰησοῦς , Jesus), salvare , save: see savel , salvation , etc. The old spelling saviour still prevails even where other nouns in -our , esp. agent-nouns, are now spelled with or , the form savior being regarded by some as irreverent.] 1. One who saves, rescues, delivers, or redeems from dan ger, death, or destruction; a deliverer; a redeemer. 2 Ki. xiii. 5. The Lord gave Israel a saviour , so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians. The Lord shall send them a saviour , and a great Isa. xix. 20. one, and he shall deliver them. Specifically-2. [ cap.] One of the appellations given to God or to Jesus Christ as the one who saves from the power and penalty of sin. (Luke ii. 11; John iv. 42.) The title is coupled in the New Testament sometimes with Christ, sometimes with God. In this use usually spelled Saviour. Item, nexte is the place where ye Jewes constreyned Symeon Cirenen, comynge from the towne, to take the Cro e after our Sauyour . Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 29. In the same Tower ys the ston vpon the whiche ower Savyor stonding ascendid in to hevyn. Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 30. savior For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour . 1 Tim. ii. 3. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour . Tit. i. 4.