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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Spare \Spare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sparing}.] [AS. sparian, fr. sp[91]r spare, sparing, saving; akin to D. & G. sparen, OHG. spar[?]n, Icel. & Sw. spara, Dan. spare See {Spare}, a.] 1. To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save. [bd]No cost would he spare.[b8] --Chaucer. [Thou] thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare. --Milton. He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. --Prov. xvii. 27. 2. To keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give. Be pleased your plitics to spare. --Dryden. Spare my sight the pain Of seeing what a world of tears it costs you. --Dryden. 3. To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to. Spare us, good Lord. --Book of Common Prayer. Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages. --Milton. Man alone can whom he conquers spare. --Waller. 4. To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty. All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty charge, he [?]estowed on . . . serving of God. --Knolles. 5. To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with. Where angry Jove did never spare One breath of kind and temperate air. --Roscommon. I could have better spared a better man. --Shak. {To spare one's self}. (a) To act with reserve. [Obs.] Her thought that a lady should her spare. --Chaucer. (b) To save one's self labor, punishment, or blame. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Sparing \Spar"ing\, a. Spare; saving; frugal; merciful. --Bacon. -- {Spar"ing*ly}, adv. -- {Spar"ing*ness}, n. | |
