Messiah

Messiah (i.e. the Anointed one), one consecrated of God, who the Jewish prophets predicted would one day appear to emancipate the Jewish people from bondage and exalt them in the eyes of all the other nations of the earth as His elect nation, and for the glory of His name.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)