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sparer|ˈspɛərə(r)|
Also 5 sparare.
[f. spare v.1 Cf. MLG. and G. sparer.]
1. A sparing, frugal, or thrifty person; one who spares in using anything.
c1440Promp. Parv. 467/1 Sparare, or he þat sparythe, parcus, parca. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 73 b, Plato was a frugall man and a great sparer or housband. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. i. 118 The Nabatheens of all other arabiens are the beste husbandes, and thriftiest sparers. 1601Holland Pliny xi. xix. 321 For otherwise they [bees] are very thriftie and overgreat sparers. 1635J. Gore Way to Well-doing 25 A good sparer makes a good spender. 1816Scott Old Mort. i, I am in general a sparer of the rod. 1882Pall Mall G. 14 June 4/2 The Turk has slaves in plenty, and is no sparer of their labour.
b. A thing or substance which aids in sparing or saving.
a1613Overbury A Wife, etc. (1616) K vj b, Hee cannot away with Tobacco; for hee is perswaded (and not much amisse) that tis a sparer of bread-corne. 19..Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. V. 564 (Cent. Dict. Suppl.), The great power as proteid sparers which the carbohydrates exercise.
2. One who refrains from injuring or destroying.
1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 78 b, He is the auenger, he is also the sparer. 1607Lloyd Pilgr. Princes 37 b, His sodaine chaunge..from a spoyler of all places, to be a sparer now of his subjects. 1853Zoologist II. 4011 The humane sparer of the poor hedgehog in the midst of his many foes. |