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unˈspared, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. MDu. ongespaert (Du. ongespaard), MLG. ungesparet, MHG. (and G.) ungespart; ON. úsparðr (Sw. ospard, Da. usparet, dial. uspard).]
1. Not spared or reserved. † Also in loose const., without sparing, unsparingly.
13..St. Erkenwolde 335 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 273 With vnsparid murthe. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) I. 504 Euerilk man, baith ill and gude vnspaird, As he had wrocht, sall get ane just rewaird. 1667Milton P.L. x. 606 Thou therefore..whatever thing The Sithe of Time mowes down, devour unspar'd. 1881Ruskin Love's Meinie iii. §87 Unspared labour, and attentive skill.
†2. Indispensable. Obs.—1
1614T. Adams Physicke fr. Heaven Wks. (1629) 291 No Physitian then cures of himselfe; no more then the hand feedes the mouth;..though the Physitian and the hand be vnspared instruments to their seuerall purposes. |