ppl. a. [f. SOUL sb. 22.] That saves the soul.

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1609.  J. Davies (Heref.), Holy Rood, Wks. (Grosart), I. 7/1. This kinde, most kinde, Soule-sauing Emperick—His owne blood broacheth so our Soules to saue.

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1642–4.  Vicars, God in Mount (1844), 45. Preaching on deep points of soul-saving grace.

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1755.  Wesley, Wks. (1872), XIII. 209. Soul-damning Clergymen lay me under more difficulties than soul-saving laymen!

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1833.  H. Blunt, Lect. Hist. St. Paul, II. 34. A real soul-saving conversion.

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1885.  Minutes of Wesleyan Conf., 20. His ministry was marked … by evangelical fervour and soul-saving power.

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  Hence † Soul-savingness. Obs.–1

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1673.  [R. Leigh], Transp. Reh., 134. I shall only point at some of the nesses … of the peoples coinage:… soul-saving-ness.

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