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