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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spare \Spare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Sparing}.] [AS. sparian, fr. spaer 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.
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              [Thou] thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not
              spare.                                --Milton.
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              He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. --Prov.
                                                    xvii. 27.
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     2. To keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give.
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              Be pleased your plitics to spare.     --Dryden.
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              Spare my sight the pain
              Of seeing what a world of tears it costs you.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     3. To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to
        punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to.
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              Spare us, good Lord.                  --Book of
                                                    Common Prayer.
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              Dim sadness did not spare
              That time celestial visages.          --Milton.
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              Man alone can whom he conquers spare. --Waller.
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     4. To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some
        occupation, use, or duty.
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              All the time he could spare from the necessary cares
              of his weighty charge, he ?estowed on . . . serving
              of God.                               --Knolles.
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     5. To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do
        without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
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              Where angry Jove did never spare
              One breath of kind and temperate air. --Roscommon.
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              I could have better spared a better man. --Shak.
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     {To spare one's self}.
        (a) To act with reserve. [Obs.]
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                  Her thought that a lady should her spare.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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        (b) To save one's self labor, punishment, or blame.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "spared":
     absolved, acquitted, blotted, canceled, chartered, condoned,
     conserved, disregarded, excepted, exculpated, excused, exempt,
     exempted, exonerated, favored, forgiven, forgotten, immune,
     indulged, intact, irresponsible, kept, let off, licensed,
     overlooked, pardoned, permitted, preserved, privileged, protected,
     redeemed, released, remitted, reprieved, saved, shriven,
     unaccountable, unanswerable, unavenged, uncondemned, undamaged,
     unliable, unresented, unrevenged, unspoiled, unsubject, untainted,
     well-conserved, wiped away
  
  

















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