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sparing
(encz) | sparing,spořící adj: Zdeněk Brož |
sparing
(encz) | sparing,šetrný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Sparing
(gcide) | Spare \Spare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spared; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sparing.] [AS. sparian, fr. spaer 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. "No cost
would he spare." --Chaucer.
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[Thou] thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not
spare. --Milton.
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He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. --Prov.
xvii. 27.
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2. To keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give.
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Be pleased your plitics to spare. --Dryden.
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Spare my sight the pain
Of seeing what a world of tears it costs you.
--Dryden.
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3. To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to
punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to.
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Spare us, good Lord. --Book of
Common Prayer.
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Dim sadness did not spare
That time celestial visages. --Milton.
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Man alone can whom he conquers spare. --Waller.
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4. To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some
occupation, use, or duty.
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All the time he could spare from the necessary cares
of his weighty charge, he ?estowed on . . . serving
of God. --Knolles.
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5. To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do
without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
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Where angry Jove did never spare
One breath of kind and temperate air. --Roscommon.
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I could have better spared a better man. --Shak.
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To spare one's self.
(a) To act with reserve. [Obs.]
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Her thought that a lady should her spare.
--Chaucer.
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(b) To save one's self labor, punishment, or blame.
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Sparing
(gcide) | Sparing \Spar"ing\, a.
Spare; saving; frugal; merciful. --Bacon.
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sparing
(wn) | sparing
adj 1: 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, sparing, stinting] |
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unsparing
(mass) | unsparing
- štedrý |
sparing
(encz) | sparing,spořící adj: Zdeněk Brožsparing,šetrný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
sparingly
(encz) | sparingly,šetrně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
tax sparing
(encz) | tax sparing, |
tax sparing credit
(encz) | tax sparing credit, |
unsparing
(encz) | unsparing,nešetřící adj: Zdeněk Brožunsparing,štědrý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
unsparingly
(encz) | unsparingly, |
sparing-partner
(czen) | sparing-partner,facilitatorn: Zdeněk Brož |
Nonsparing
(gcide) | Nonsparing \Non*spar"ing\, a.
Sparing none.
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Sparingly
(gcide) | Sparing \Spar"ing\, a.
Spare; saving; frugal; merciful. --Bacon.
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Sparingness
(gcide) | Sparing \Spar"ing\, a.
Spare; saving; frugal; merciful. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster] -- Spar"ing*ly, adv. -- Spar"ing*ness, n.
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Unsparing
(gcide) | Unsparing \Un*spar"ing\, a. [Pref. un- not + sparing, p. pr. of
spare.]
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1. Not sparing; not parsimonious; liberal; profuse. --Burke.
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2. Not merciful or forgiving. [R.] --Milton.
[1913 Webster] -- Un*spar"ing*ly, adv. --
Un*spar"ing*ness, n.
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Unsparingly
(gcide) | Unsparing \Un*spar"ing\, a. [Pref. un- not + sparing, p. pr. of
spare.]
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1. Not sparing; not parsimonious; liberal; profuse. --Burke.
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2. Not merciful or forgiving. [R.] --Milton.
[1913 Webster] -- Un*spar"ing*ly, adv. --
Un*spar"ing*ness, n.
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Unsparingness
(gcide) | Unsparing \Un*spar"ing\, a. [Pref. un- not + sparing, p. pr. of
spare.]
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1. Not sparing; not parsimonious; liberal; profuse. --Burke.
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2. Not merciful or forgiving. [R.] --Milton.
[1913 Webster] -- Un*spar"ing*ly, adv. --
Un*spar"ing*ness, n.
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sparing
(wn) | sparing
adj 1: 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, sparing, stinting] |
sparingly
(wn) | sparingly
adv 1: to a meager degree or in a meager manner; "these voices
are meagerly represented at the conference"; "the area is
slenderly endowed with natural resources" [syn:
meagerly, sparingly, slenderly, meagrely] [ant:
amply, fully, richly] |
unsparing
(wn) | unsparing
adj 1: very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand";
"the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent
gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother
a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal
praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted
devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain" [syn:
lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous,
unsparing, unstinted, unstinting]
2: not forbearing; ruthless; "an unsparing critic" |
unsparingly
(wn) | unsparingly
adv 1: in a scathing and unsparing manner; "she criticized him
scathingly" [syn: scathingly, unsparingly] |
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