Crossword clues for sparing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spare \Spare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spared; p. pr. & vb. n. Sparing.] [AS. sparian, fr. sp[ae]r spare, sparing, saving; akin to D. & G. sparen, OHG. spar?n, Icel. & Sw. spara, Dan. spare See Spare, a.]
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To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save. ``No cost would he spare.''
--Chaucer.[Thou] thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare.
--Milton.He that hath knowledge, spareth his words.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To act with reserve. [Obs.]
Her thought that a lady should her spare.
--Chaucer. To save one's self labor, punishment, or blame.
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Sparing \Spar"ing\, a.
Spare; saving; frugal; merciful.
--Bacon.
[1913 Webster] -- Spar"ing*ly, adv. -- Spar"ing*ness, n.
Wiktionary
prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal v
(present participle of spare English)
WordNet
adj. avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally" [syn: economical, frugal, scotch, stinting]
Usage examples of "sparing".
He had hoped she would assume he had succumbed again to methamphetamine hydrochloride and was sparing her the agony of his descent back into the hell of chemical dependence.
Next they marched to another town called Toguaro, six leagues from Huancara, killing the Sinchi, named Alca-parihuana, and all the people, not sparing any but the children, that they might grow and repeople that land.
Leigh and Nay crouched over Rounce, not sparing a glance in my direction.
Although it was not yet dark outside, the curtains were closely drawn and only the sparing light trickling from a single oil lamp showed him how dismal his surroundings were.
We must go to her, trampling what is merely useful under our feet: whithersoever she may call us or send us we must go, without any regard for our private fortunes, sometimes without sparing even our own blood, nor must we ever refuse to obey any of her commands.
Hideous tales were told of these Irish, led by a left-handed Macdonald--savage as Amalekites, blind zealots of Rome, burning and slaughtering, and sparing neither sex nor age.
Some manner of person had husbanded these woods, cutting down trees for firewood and boatbuilding in many spots but fostering quick-growing ash and sparing half the slow-growing oaks in others.
It showed that Gats was sparing no effort to see that plans worked out to-night.
Thus the recognition of ghosts or spirits as the sources of sickness and death has as its immediate effect the sparing of an immense number of lives of men and women, who on the theory of death by sorcery would have perished by violence to expiate their imaginary crime.
He intends to earn no hatred from businessmen or his fellow nobles, he intends that they kiss his feet in abject thanks for sparing their lives and letting them keep their property.
Sparing no time for pleasantries, he had come straight to the point, sending Herb Kalo hurrying back to his office to retrieve a neatly folded fan of paper.
No scholar and a sparing attendant at lectures, he had nevertheless revealed a certain predilection for the subjects which Mr Lammas professed, had won a prize for debate in the Logic class, and in Rhetoric had shown a gift for declamation and a high-coloured taste in English style.
Admetus prayed for his celestial aid To win Alcestis, which the god vouchsafed, Granting with smiles, as grant all gods, who smite With stern hand, sparing not for piteousness, But give their gifts in gladness.
One might have supposed that the course was straight on--over everything, neither to the right nor to the left, regardless of all considerations in the way, sparing nothing, treading everything under foot.
She was neither over sparing nor over generous in the distribution of her favours, and knew how to make the whole town rave about her without fearing the results of indiscretion or sorrows of being abandoned.