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Saving   /sˈeɪvɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Save  v. t.  (past & past part. saved; pres. part. saving)  
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." "He cried, saying, Lord, save me." "Thou hast... quitted all to save A world from utter loss."
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."
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."
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."
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?"
6.
To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of. "Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit."
To save appearances, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things.
Synonyms: To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve; prevent.


Save  v. i.  To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical. "Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material."


noun
Saving  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."
Savings bank, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.


adjective
Saving  adj.  
1.
Preserving; rescuing. "He is the saving strength of his anointed."
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.


preposition
Saving  prep., conj.  With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to. "Saving your reverence." "Saving your presence." "None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing." "And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it."





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"Saving" Quotes from Famous Books



... frugality has succeeded not only in living, but in putting by a trifle month by month. As the great manufactories have sprung up, possibilities have lessened and altered, till the workwoman, however cheerfully she may face conditions, knows that saving has become impossible. If, in some cases, wages have risen, prices have advanced with them till only necessities are possible, the useful having dropped away from the plan, and the agreeable ceased to have place even in thought. ...
— Prisoners of Poverty Abroad • Helen Campbell
... so little hope of saving the house that the removal of everything valuable was begun under my father's superintendence. Frank Fordyce was here, there, and everywhere; while Griffith, like a gallant general, fought the foe with very helpless ...
— Chantry House • Charlotte M. Yonge
... it would. Now, Brown, while you have been grumbling at me I have been saving this little affair for our benefit—yours and mine. We won't let any of the rest of them into it, but whatever we find we will ...
— Do and Dare - A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... influence on the young which is necessary, trusting in the delusive expectation, that the law will keep them in the right path; that the example of punishment, the terror of the gallows, the prison, or the penitentiary, will prevent the commission of crime. But let us not wait for the saving influence of these things; for they are but checks which often render the next outbreak more alarming. The force of punishment will be found to resemble the application of power in changing the growth of the tree: weeks, ...
— Reflections on the Operation of the Present System of Education, 1853 • Christopher C. Andrews
... mostly took on Sunday nights, As most in keeping with that day's delights. For both had long quite strict attendants been At a small Chapel, thought to be too mean To be oft visited by wealthy men; Though some would wander to it now and then. As yet nor WILLIAM, nor his girl, professed To be by saving Gospel Truth most bless'd; Yet both went there three times each Sabbath day, To join in singing, if they did not pray. And 'tis but right that Christian parents should To church take children, for the children's good. To lead them to regard the Lord's own day— Nor spend its hours in idleness or ...
— The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales In Verse - Together With Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects • Thomas Cowherd


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