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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.
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God save all this fair company. --Chaucer.
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He cried, saying, Lord, save me. --Matt. xiv.
30.
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Thou hast . . . quitted all to save
A world from utter loss. --Milton.
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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.
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Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
--1 Tim. i.
15.
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3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or
expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
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Now save a nation, and now save a groat. --Pope.
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4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to
prevent from doing something; to spare.
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I'll save you
That labor, sir. All's now done. --Shak.
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5. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate
the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
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Will you not speak to save a lady's blush? --Dryden.
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6. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
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Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of
merit. --Swift.
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{To save appearances}, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid
exposure of a discreditable state of things.
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Syn: To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve;
prevent.
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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.
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None of us put off our clothes, saving that every one
put them off for washing. --Neh. iv. 23.
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And in the stone a new name written, which no man
knoweth saving he that receiveth it. --Rev. ii. 17.
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Saving \Sav"ing\, a.
1. Preserving; rescuing.
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He is the saving strength of his anointed. --Ps.
xxviii. 8.
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2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish
or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.
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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.
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4. Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.
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Note: Saving is often used with a noun to form a compound
adjective; as, labor-saving, life-saving, etc.
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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.
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2. Exception; reservation.
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Contend not with those that are too strong for us,
but still with a saving to honesty. --L'Estrange.
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{Savings bank}, a bank in which savings or earnings are
deposited and put at interest.
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