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Synonyms for sparing
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : spair-ing |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈspɛər ɪŋ |
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Définition of sparing
Origin :- Old English sparian "to refrain from harming, to allow to go free," from the source of Old English spær "sparing, frugal," from Proto-Germanic *sparaz (cf. Old Frisian sparia, Old Norse spara, Old High German sparon "to spare"). Meaning "to dispense from one's own stock" is recorded from early 13c. Related: Spared; sparing.
- adj careful, economical
- "Well, I'm not sparing you the 'Be—'," said Donald, busy with the fastenings of the lunch basket.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- Many of our most energetic and useful workers have been but sparing readers.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- But it doesn't present itself to me as a ground for sparing the older generation.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- But after a quarrel, when the laundress had bullied her, the old woman was not sparing in her allusions.
- Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
- Was this his clemency—this sparing of my life that he might submit it to an eternal shame?
- Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini
- Such a sparing meal as they made—for neither had much appetite—was made in silence.
- Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini
- Mackenzie accepted the correction with a nod of understanding, sparing his words.
- Extract from : « The Flockmaster of Poison Creek » by George W. Ogden
- These gentlemen are sparing of speech, and more so of gesture.
- Extract from : « Arthur O'Leary » by Charles James Lever
- But, aware that we had only half an hour before us, we were sparing of the minutes.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- But the colour had been laid on with no sparing hand, the veil was impenetrable.
- Extract from : « The Nebuly Coat » by John Meade Falkner
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