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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.]
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.
[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.
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