spared

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

[Thou] thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

He that hath knowledge, spareth his words.— Prov. xvii. 27.[1913 Webster]

2.To keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give. [1913 Webster]

Be pleased your plitics to spare.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

Spare my sight the pain Of seeing what a world of tears it costs you.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

3.To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to. [1913 Webster]

Spare us, good Lord.— Book of Common Prayer.[1913 Webster]

Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

Man alone can whom he conquers spare.— Waller.[1913 Webster]

4.To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty. [1913 Webster]

All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty charge, he ?estowed on . . . serving of God.— Knolles.[1913 Webster]

5.To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with. [1913 Webster]

Where angry Jove did never spare One breath of kind and temperate air.— Roscommon.[1913 Webster]

I could have better spared a better man.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

To spare one's self. (a) To act with reserve. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Her thought that a lady should her spare. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] (b) To save one's self labor, punishment, or blame. [1913 Webster]