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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



... feather flock together; the way of a sinner no more suits a true believer than the way of the believer suits the sinner. As a witness for his MASTER in the hope of saving the lost, he may go to them; but he will not, like Lot, pitch his tent towards Sodom; lest he be ensnared as Lot was, who only escaped himself, losing all those he loved best, and all his possessions. Ah, how many parents ...
— A Ribband of Blue - And Other Bible Studies • J. Hudson Taylor
... believe that the blood of St. Januarius reliquefies miraculously every year, the Credo stuck in his throat like Amen in Macbeth's. He had got down at last to his irreducible minimum of dogmatic incredulity, and could not, even with the mouth of the bottomless pit yawning before Belloc, utter the saving lie." ...
— G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study • Julius West
... a suit of disgracefully shabby tweeds, that he may purchase a Theophrastus of fine print and binding upon which he has long had his eye, and will be taking milk and bread for his lunch in the city, because he has a foolish ambition to acquire by a year's saving the Kelmscott edition of the Golden Legend. A change of air might cure him, as for instance twenty years' residence on an American ranch, but even then on his return the disease might break out again: indeed the chances are strong ...
— Books and Bookmen • Ian Maclaren
... neighboring boat, Lincoln had succeeded in tilting his craft. By boring a hole in the end extending over the dam the water was let out. This done, the boat was easily shoved over and reloaded. The ingenuity which he had exercised in saving his boat made a deep impression on the crowd on the bank. It was talked over for many a day, and the general verdict was that the "bow-hand" was a "strapper." The proprietor of boat and cargo was even more enthusiastic than the spectators, and vowed he would build a steamboat for the ...
— McClure's Magazine December, 1895 • Edited by Ida M. Tarbell
... nothing. Isn't that fearful? Isn't it fearful that you are living in this filth which you loathe so, and at the same time you know yourself (you've only to open your eyes) that you are not helping anyone by it, not saving anyone from anything? Tell me," he went on almost in a frenzy, "how this shame and degradation can exist in you side by side with other, opposite, holy feelings? It would be better, a thousand times better and wiser to leap into the water ...
— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky


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