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5 definitions found 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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