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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Save \Save\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Saved}; p. pr & vb n.
{Saving}.] [OE. saven, sauven salven, OF salver, sauver, F.
sauver, L. salvare, fr salvus saved, safe. See {Safe}, a.]
1. To make safe; to procure the safety of to preserve from
injury, destruction, or evil of any kind to rescue from
impending danger; as to save a house from the flames.
God save all this fair company. --Chaucer.
He cried, saying, Lord, save me --Matt. xiv.
30.
Thou hast . . . quitted all to save A world from
utter loss --Milton.
2. (Theol.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its
penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and
spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
--1 Tim. i.
15.
3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or
expenditure; to lay up to reserve.
Now save a nation, and now save a groat. --Pope.
4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to
prevent from doing something to spare.
I'll save you That labor, sir. All's now done
--Shak.
5. To hinder from doing suffering, or happening; to obviate
the necessity of to prevent; to spare.
Will you not speak to save a lady's blush? --Dryden.
6. To hold possession or use of to escape loss of
Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of
merit. --Swift.
{To save appearances}, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid
exposure of a discreditable state of things
Syn: To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve;
prevent.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Saving \Sav"ing\ (s[=a]v"[i^]ng), prep. or conj.; but properly a
participle.
With the exception of except; excepting; also without
disrespect to ``Saving your reverence.'' --Shak. ``Saving
your presence.'' --Burns.
None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one
put them off for washing. --Neh. iv 23.
And in the stone a new name written, which no man
knoweth saving he that receiveth it --Rev. ii 17.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Saving \Sav"ing\, n.
1. Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is
saved or laid up as the savings of years of economy.
2. Exception; reservation.
Contend not with those that are too strong for us
but still with a saving to honesty. --L'Estrange.
{Savings bank}, a bank in which savings or earnings are
deposited and put at interest.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Saving \Sav"ing\, a.
1. Preserving; rescuing.
He is the saving strength of his anointed. --Ps.
xxviii. 8.
2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish
or wasteful; economical; as a saving cook.
3. Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended;
incurring no loss though not gainful; as a saving
bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage.
4. Making reservation or exception; as a saving clause.
Note: Saving is often used with a noun to form a compound
adjective; as labor-saving, life-saving, etc
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
saving
adj 1: bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving
faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love" [syn: {redemptive},
{redeeming(a)}, {saving(a)}]
2: characterized by thriftiness; "wealthy by inheritance but
saving by constitution"- Ellen Glasgow
n 1: an act of economizing; reduction in cost; "it was a small
economy to walk to work every day" or "there was a
saving of 50 cents" [syn: {economy}]
2: recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the
deliverance of mankind" or "a surgeon's job is the saving
of lives" [syn: {rescue}, {deliverance}, {delivery}]
3: the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
[syn: {preservation}, {preserving}]
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