savingn.
/ˈseɪvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈseɪvɪŋ/ 1. The action of rescuing or protecting a person or thing from danger or harm; the prevention of a person's death or injury; deliverance from, or prevention of, destruction, damnation, or failure. Also: an instance of this; a rescue, a deliverance.
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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun]
alesingOE
liverisona1225
deliverancec1300
healtha1325
redemptiona1325
deliveringc1330
savementc1330
salvationc1374
savinga1387
rescousc1390
rescuec1400
winningc1400
rescuingc1405
acquittancec1430
rescours1439
saveage1507
deliveration1509
deliverya1513
riddancea1530
liverance1553
rescousing1605
vindication1613
out-takinga1617
acquittal1619
vindicating1624
deliverancy1641
safety1654
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [noun]
healnessc897
heal901
alesenesseOE
lesenessOE
alesendnessOE
healthc1000
alesednessOE
berrhlessc1175
i-sundungc1175
salvation?c1225
buyinga1300
savementc1330
yborȝing1340
election1382
savinga1387
safetyc1390
soul healtha1393
redemptiona1400
safenessa1400
curation?c1400
predestinationc1400
gain-buying1435
dilection1570
expeccationa1631
unsinninga1631
soul-savingness1672
inner light1856
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 299 Þe citee scholde be ȝolde to hym for savynge [?a1475 anon. tr. deliueraunce; L. liberatione] of þe children.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12775 Wijt we þan for quat resun For sauueing of vr dampnacioun, þat he now suilk baptiszing mass?
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 5806 (MED) A Thousand knyghtes..Fel on Ector..To saue Menescen and kyng Tentan; For that sauyng died many a man.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xi. §6. 44 Safynge of rightwis and dampnynge of wickid.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xxxix. 53 Syr Henry wolde nat let his wepon go for sauyng of his honour.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xviii. 50) This election was myghtely ratifyed by continewall successe of savinges.
1611 Bible (King James) Heb. xi. 7 Noah..prepared an Arke to the sauing of his house. View more context for this quotation
1676 C. Molloy De Jure Maritimo ii. v. 229 If the Ship perishes onely, and the Goods are safe, in that case the Goods ought to pay a proportion of a 5th or 10th penny, according to the easie or difficult winning or saving of the said Goods.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 365 His speech signified nothing towards the saving of himself.
1743 B. Franklin Papers (1960) II. 389 A strong Party Wall, with a Battlement above the Roof, contributed very much to the Saving of Mr. Till's new House.
1858 A. H. Clough Amours de Voyage in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 420 All the foolish destructions, and all the sillier savings.
1883 A. Gilman Hist. Amer. People v. 88 When he was writing an account of his captivity..he embellished it with the well-known story of the dramatic saving of his life by Pocahontas.
1906 H. C. Lea Hist. Inquisition Spain II. vi. vi. 569 In theory the object of the Inquisition was the saving of souls.
1921 Hamilton (Ohio) Evening Jrnl. 12 Aug. 12/5 Few heroic savings has [sic] been accredited to women.
2004 H. Frank I can't tell You 195 I think if I could be any superhero, I wouldn't do generic saving like Batman.
2. Chiefly Law. An exception or proviso; esp. a provision in a contract, statute, or other legal document containing an exemption from one or more of its conditions or obligations; a saving clause.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [noun] > reservation, proviso
conditionc1315
preveance?1316
purview1442
proviso1443
provision1450
saving1478
forprise1530
cautel1541
caveat1579
postulate1588
cautiona1593
non obstante1604
reservation1606
unless1606
reservancy1630
salvo1642
reserve1644
stipulation1792
reserver1807
get-out clause1912
clausula rebus sic stantibus1939
escape clause1945
1478 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1478 §13. m. 13 All offices, fees, rentes and annuitees..other than rentes services, be in no wise comprised or conteyned in this saving.
1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 5 §9 The sauinges reseruinges and prouisions..of the saide former act.
1628 Abp. J. Williams Serm. 6 Apr. 4 S. Paul makes a statute in this place against glorying, and reioycing..with a sauing, and Prouiso, for the right Obiect.
1700 C. Davenant Disc. Grants & Resumptions iii. 192 The Moderations or Savings put in Writing, as afore, are in Number Forty Two.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 367 Therein the tenant swore to bear faith to his sovereign lord, in opposition to all men, without any saving or exception.
1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. viii. 299 The Statute of Uses contained a saving in favour of wills made before the first day of May, 1536.
1884 Law Times Rep. 50 315/1 The savings from a repealing clause would not apply to any express antecedent provision of the Act inconsistent with them.
1906 Jrnl. Compar. Legislation & Internat. Law 7 215 The Surveyors (Land) Amendment Act, 1904..contains savings and exceptions in favour of land surveyors existing at the date of the act.
1998 J. J. Fawcett & P. Torremans Intellect. Prop. & Private Internat. Law ii. xii. 633 Section 14 introduces five savings or exceptions to the rules set out in Part III... Section 14 also does this since these five savings are existing exceptions to tort choice of law rules.
3.
a. The action or practice of economizing on expenditure or use of money, resources, time, etc.; thrift, frugality. Now more usually: the accumulation of wealth or resources by such economizing, or by setting aside (esp. on a regular basis) a portion of one's income for this purpose. Also with up.
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the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > [noun] > saving or economizing
saving1551
moderation1601
savation?1670
Hooverizing1918
belt-tightening1934
slimming1958
1551 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 426 For the..sawing of expenssis to the citizens.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 128 The robbing of the church for the saving of some mony.
1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng Restored 89 For the sooner dispatch, and saving of cost.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. ii. 169 Come, hang Saving; bring us a Halfporth of Cheese.
1771 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 506/2 The author principally directs his views to the preservation of the health of the cattle, and the saving of time in attending them.
1836 Fraser's Mag. July 118 Saving is what he takes delight in,—He goes whenever they invite him; On others' wine gets wondrous merry, [etc.].
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. i. v. §5 90 Saving, in short, enriches, and spending impoverishes.
1883 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 11 569 The object of the society being the encouragement of saving.
1931 H. S. Williams Bk. of Marvels 123 The cost of typesetting is minimized, and there is great saving of time and labor, as compared with hand-setting.
1956 Oxf. Econ. Papers 8 311 That saving up is a very important element in extra working today can hardly be doubted.
2005 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 6 May 2 Extra money was gobbled up in tax by the Government, making saving difficult for the average Kiwi.
b. A reduction made in the use of money, time, or another resource; an economy; a particular amount or sum saved, esp. on a purchase, by such a reduction or economy. Also (North American) in plural with singular agreement.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > moderation or reduction in expenditure > [noun]
safety1549
moderation1601
retention1655
retrenchment1667
savation?1670
saving1731
waist-tightening1882
cutback1943
1731 Gentleman's Mag. July 279/1 The Salary of this great Office is 5000 l. per ann...which his late Majesty resolv'd to suppress, to make a saving to the Revenue.
1772 C. Hutton Princ. Bridges 5 Fewer arches..will produce great savings in the expence.
1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds vi. 77 A great saving of time and labour.
1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 257 The saving of fuel is much greater when turf and wood are employed.
1877 Rep. Grindstone Island in 11th Ann. Rep. Dept. Marine & Fisheries 1878 (1879) 74 If the boiler was covered with canvas or felt..so as to have the water go into the boiler warm, it would be a great savings.
1899 N.Y. Times 30 Apr. 26/4 (advt.) That's a saving of nearly 6c. on every on you buy.
1916 M. Gyte Diary 22 May (1999) 88 We have not lit our lamps so far this week..so that will be a saving of paraffin.
1970 Rotarian Aug. 50/2 That's a savings of over a million dollars each year.
1999 Southampton City News July 13/6 The promotion which allows residents to purchase a top quality home composting bin with a saving of 80% on the retail price.
2004 Internet Mag. New Year 1/1 Dedicated Servers can pass on the saving we make with our economies of scale and buying power.
c. A sum of money set aside or kept in reserve. Now usually in plural: money accumulated by economizing or by setting aside (esp. on a regular basis) a portion of one's income.
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > sum of money saved
nest-egg1686
saving1737
haining1823
save1844
lay-by1894
1737 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 656/2 If he could save 500 or 1000l. a Year out of his Estate, he would certainly apply that Saving towards discharging his small Debts.
1786 A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscretions I. 215 My hard savings and earnings.
1795 Freemason's Mag. May 306 Being remarkably frugal, [he] saved money out of a very scanty income. With this saving he took a cellar.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 338 More than half my savings were laid out on repairs.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 239 She had three or four hundred pounds to bequeath, partly her own savings, and partly a legacy from a distant relative.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xliii. 132 The working man who puts his savings into the house he lives in.
1924 B. D. Nash Investm. Banking in Eng. 3 The function of investment banking is to gather together the savings and surplus capital of individuals and companies.
1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) lvi. 427 The ‘well-to-do’ peasants..resented anything that looked like loss of control over their savings, homes and land.
2008 Independent 16 Apr. 4/3 With weekly bills growing all the time I'm eating into my savings far earlier than I had planned to.
d. British Navy. In plural. Provisions declined by a sailor for which payment in lieu is received; the payment in lieu so received. to take (up) savings: to accept payment in lieu of declined provisions; (in extended use) to go without having or doing something. Now rare.
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1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Savings of Provisions, implies the bread, wine, spirits, beef, pork, butter, and cheese, which have been saved by the different persons or messes in any of his Majesty's ships, from the established allowance of those species; and for which the purser pays them, at..the credit prices stated in his instructions.
1874 Lancet 25 July 137/1 The navy system of allowing money for savings affords an opportunity to the crew to take savings for fresh meat.
1884 Through Dusty Corners III. iii. xx. 88 Wash up these cups, or you'll have to take up savings for your cocoa.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 8/2 The Committee dwells upon the difficulty of framing an ideal ration so long as canteens and the ‘savings’ system exist.
1917 H. T. Dorling Sub xii. 298 One may hear the expression, ‘I will take up savings for going ashore to-day’, meaning ‘I will not go ashore’.
1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 100/1 Savings, money taken in lieu of grog, etc. A rating will sometimes refuse a thing, saying, ‘I'll take up savings on that’.
4. Sport. The action of preventing an opponent from scoring; esp. (Association Football) the action, on the part of a goalkeeper, of stopping or collecting a shot and thus preventing a goal. Cf. save v. 25b.
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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > preventing opposing team from scoring
saving1889
1889 Suppl. Cambr. Rev. 24 Jan. p. xliv/1 Woods' tackling at full back was the feature of the game and his saving was also very brilliant.
1909 N.Z. Free Lance 11 Sept. 18/2 Oldnall added to his reputation as a goal-keeper in this match. His saving was brilliant.
1994 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 4 Sept. 31 Goalkeeper Schmeichel's saving of a penalty may have arrested further share dealing for the time being.
5. Computing. The action or process of saving a file or program. Cf. save v. 16.
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society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > storage > action of storing
writing1946
saving1965
save1982
1965 Progr. Rep. Project MAC II. 143 These commands provide for off-line input of blocks of data, for the deletion of data from mass memory, and for the saving of data and programs.
1985 InfoWorld 10 June 46/3 The 3½-inch diskettes..provide for the saving of many more word processing or spreadsheet files.
1992 UNIX Rev. Mar. 66/3 It provides for operations on files, such as selection, merging, sorting, appending, saving.
2009 H. Grain & P. Procter Using Health Data v. 187 Regular saving after checking of each change..is strongly recommended.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (in sense 3).
a. With the first element in singular form, as saving deposit, saving fund, saving incentive, etc.Recorded earliest in saving box n. at Compounds 2a.
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1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks 151 I have since understood, that all Tradesmen in Italy do each of them keep a Saving-box, into which they put what Mony they can spare during the whole Year in order to their going in Pilgrimage.
1815 Times 21 Dec. 4/1 A..Meeting..was held..to consider of the propriety of establishing..a Provident Society, or Saving Fund, for the secure investment to poor persons of small sums of money.
1884 Liverpool Mercury 21 June 5/3 It is an ungracious duty to preach saving habits when times are bad.
1939 G. von Haberler Prosperity & Depression (rev. ed.) 197 It has been widely assumed that, for very low rates of interest, the saving incentive for the community as a whole tends to vanish.
1987 N. Frumkin Tracking America's Econ. vii. 215 Saving deposits may forfeit some interest payments if withdrawn before certain dates.
2008 I. Bode Culture of Welfare Markets iii. 74 Low-income earners had been enticed..to purchase saving plans offering few or no tax incentives.
b. With the first element in plural form, as savings bond, savings deposit, savings fund, savings plan, etc.Recorded earliest in savings bank n. at Compounds 2b.
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1813 Scots Mag. Nov. 839/2 The encouragement of sober and industrious habits among the poor, by the institution of a Loan-Fund and a Savings-Bank.
1882 H. L. Hamilton Househ. Managem. for Labouring Classes 19 In most places there is generally a little weekly Savings Club.
1927 Daily Tel. 7 Mar. 2 This loan bears ½ per cent. more interest than the Savings Bonds.
1967 G. F. Papanek Pakistan's Devel., Social Goals & Private Incentives vii. 188 With savings incentives reduced and profit rates declining, gross private monetized savings stagnated after 1955.
1985 Black Enterprise Sept. 27/1 If you are looking for a low-cost loan or a high rate on a savings deposit, a credit union may well be a good source for you.
2008 E. M. Stasiak Your New Baby i. 33 Start with a simple savings plan that you can deposit a small amount of money into each payday.
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a. Compounds with the first element in singular form.
saving bank n. = savings bank n. at Compounds 2b.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > savings bank
saving bank1808
savings bank1813
saving institution1816
savings institution1819
trustee bank1841
penny bank1849
post-office savings-bank1861
1808 Crit. Rev. 12 491 The next branch of enquiry is on the subject of instituting ‘a saving bank or pension chest’, to which the labouring classes..are to contribute while in health, and from which they are to receive in turn a pension during old age or sickness.
1867 J. W. Wallace Cases Supreme Court U.S. 3 505 What are these ‘saving banks’ or ‘saving funds’, which exist in England, France, and all over the North of our own country?
2008 H. Davies & D. Green Global Financial Regulation ii. 51 It directly examines and supervises over 5,000 banks and saving banks.
saving box n. = savings box n. at Compounds 2b.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun] > for savings
saving box1691
thrift-box1777
savings box1825
thrift-pot1835
save-all1841
1691Saving-box [see Compounds 1a].
1821 5th Rep. Amer. Bible Soc. 208 Many children contributed from their saving boxes, and many maid-servants from their wages.
1917 Baldur (Manitoba) Gaz. 12 Apr. 5/4 In issuing these saving boxes to houses, the plan is to charge a security of $1.54 (3 rubles), which will be credited as a deposit.
2005 J. Cody Home for Christmas ii. 29 He bought himself a saving box, and put the rest of the money into it.
saving institution n. = savings institution n. at Compounds 2b.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > savings bank
saving bank1808
savings bank1813
saving institution1816
savings institution1819
trustee bank1841
penny bank1849
post-office savings-bank1861
1816 H. Duncan Ess. Nature & Advantages Parish Banks (ed. 2) 26 In many of the saving institutions which consider it useful to hold out peculiar encouragement to habits of accumulation, 4 per cent only is allowed to depositors.
1913 J. M. Gillette Constructive Rural Sociol. x. 144 There needs to be established certain helpful institutions. One is a simple saving institution.
2008 Winchester (Va.) Star 29 Jan. a4/3 There are 8,600 community banks and saving institutions meeting the credit needs of the typical borrowers on Main Street every day.
saving rate n. (a) the interest rate paid on savings; = savings rate n. (a) at Compounds 2b; (b) = savings rate n. (b) at Compounds 2b.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > moneylending at interest > interest > rate of interest
prime rate1815
usage1822
mortgage rate1898
savings rate1904
saving rate1905
discount rate1913
base lending rate1933
prime lending rate1951
interest-rate1959
base rate1970
minimum lending rate1972
MLR1972
prime1973
bank rate1974
LIBOR1974
subprime1976
Euribor1997
1905 Weekly Northwestern Miller 18 Oct. 157/3 Some of the banks do not wish to receive any money at the ordinary saving rates.
1948 Rev. Econ. & Statistics 30 28/1 Mounting consumer incomes..were accompanied by a relatively low individual saving rate.
1995 S. L. Gordon U.S. & Global Capital Shortages iv. 85 Consumer confidence fell and the saving rate slowly increased.
2011 Independent (Nexis) 31 Dec. 50 Investors will..become increasingly focused on dividend payments in the months ahead, particularly if high-street saving rates remain so depressed.
saving scheme n. = savings scheme n. at Compounds 2b.
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1842 M. B. Howitt Little Coin, Much Care v. 61 ‘I will tell the ladies of the Provident Society to call here, and I also will put something by weekly’... It made Mrs. Ford quite happy that her husband entered into the saving scheme so cordially.
1986 H. Mantel Vacant Possession vii. 177 He called into one or two [banks], picking up leaflets about mortgages and saving schemes.
2012 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 9 June 8 M&S Money..already provides credit cards, loans and saving schemes to more than three million customers.
b. Compounds with the first element in plural (or occasionally genitive plural) form.
savings account n. an account at a bank, building society, etc., designed for personal savings, which pays interest to depositors and may require a notice period before a withdrawal may be made; a deposit account.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank-account
account1615
bank account1671
a/c1736
drawing account1737
private account1772
banking account1792
embankment1813
current account1846
savings account1850
deposit account1851
checking account1923
demand deposit1930
ghost account1933
numbered account1963
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > other types of accounts
calends of exchangec1374
scorea1400
pipe1455
mensalc1475
profit and loss1553
stock1588
bank account1671
lump-account1699
revenue account1703
profit and loss account1721
sundry1736
drawing account1737
stock account?1768
private account1772
trading account1780
Flemish account1785
capital account1813
embankment1813
cost account1817
cash-credit1832
current account1846
savings account1850
deposit account1851
suspense account1869
control account1908
checking account1923
ghost account1933
numbered account1963
budget account1969
ISA1975
MSA1993
1850 Dublin Rev. Dec. 348 The rest is carried to a savings account, and bears interest at 4 per cent.
1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 29 Apr. 8/6 Encourage your boy to save by opening a savings account for him.
2004 Which? Aug. 24/1 Credit unions probably aren't the first place you think of when you're looking for a new savings account or personal loan.
savings bank n. a bank or other institution (formerly esp. a state-owned corporation or mutual society) which pays interest on deposits of personal savings; a bank which offers savings accounts.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > savings bank
saving bank1808
savings bank1813
saving institution1816
savings institution1819
trustee bank1841
penny bank1849
post-office savings-bank1861
1813Savings-Bank [see Compounds 1b].
1929 M. Lief Hangover xviii. 281 That damn fool took all his money out of the savings bank and put it in some crappy oil stock in Wall Street.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 June b1/5 Many of Spain's savings banks, known as cajas, were originally pawnshops started by Catholic charities.
savings book n. (now somewhat dated) a book issued to the holder of a bank or building society account in which a record is kept of sums deposited and withdrawn and of interest accrued.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > bank book or savings book
bankbook1714
passage-book1816
savings book1826
passbook1828
post-office savings bank book1936
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank-account > passbook or savings book
bankbook1714
bankers' book1764
passage-book1816
savings book1826
passbook1828
post-office savings bank book1936
1826 Rep. Commissioners III. 342 in Parl. Papers XII. The sum of 193l. 4s...was invested in the savings bank at Wells... The interest in the savings book had increased the said sum on the 20th November 1824 to 198l. 19s. 10½d.
1936 N. Streatfeild Ballet Shoes xv. 232 I was quite ashamed of your savings book... I care..that you have a nice lot saved for when you are grown up.
1995 N. Whittaker Platform Souls (1996) xxi. 166 I dreaded them finding out that their Sunday qualities' travel writer was a claimant with frayed shoelaces and £1.47 in his savings book.
savings box n. a container in which a person's savings are stored; a money box.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun] > for savings
saving box1691
thrift-box1777
savings box1825
thrift-pot1835
save-all1841
1825 Child's Compan. Sept. 25 If you and my dear papa approve it, I will give something out of my Savings' Box, where I put my money.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. ii. [Nestor] 30 Three, Mr Deasy said, turning his little savingsbox about in his hand.
2005 F. Tallis Death in Vienna (2007) xii. 85 Natalie had repeatedly taken coins from her savings box.
savings certificate n. a document issued to savers, usually by the government, offering fixed interest on a deposit made for a specified number of years.Introduced in Great Britain as War Savings Certificates in February 1916 (see war savings adj. at war n.1 Compounds 1e), and renamed in 1920 as National Savings Certificates (see National Savings n.).
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > certificates
trust certificate1720
scrip?1734
script1768
savings certificate1842
stock certificate1863
PINC1986
property income certificate1986
1842 North Amer. & Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia) 19 Feb. Sold..to the highest bidder..2 shares Philadelphia Museum Co; 6 shares Arbon Coal Co; $1000 Phila Savings Certificate.
1919 Saving 3 Dec. 140/2 Leyton school children have bought Savings Certificates to the value of over £48,000.
2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Money section) 9/7 National Savings..also announced cuts to rates on bonds and fixed-interest savings certificates.
savings institution n. a financial institution which pays interest on deposits of personal savings; cf. savings bank n.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > savings bank
saving bank1808
savings bank1813
saving institution1816
savings institution1819
trustee bank1841
penny bank1849
post-office savings-bank1861
1819 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 16 Oct. On Wednesday evening..a respectable number of gentlemen assembled..to consider the expediency of establishing a Savings Institution in the town of Providence.
1924 Times 19 June 20/3 When not deposited in banks or savings institutions this floating capital finds its way into public loans, private loans [etc.]..and shares in limited companies.
2003 D. L. Scott Wall St. Words (ed. 3) 6 The add-ons allowed by some savings institutions provide a real benefit to investors during periods of declining interest rates.
savings rate n. (a) the interest rate paid on savings; (b) a measure of the amount of money set aside (by a person, group, country, etc.) from income for the purpose of saving, expressed as a ratio or percentage.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > moneylending at interest > interest > rate of interest
prime rate1815
usage1822
mortgage rate1898
savings rate1904
saving rate1905
discount rate1913
base lending rate1933
prime lending rate1951
interest-rate1959
base rate1970
minimum lending rate1972
MLR1972
prime1973
bank rate1974
LIBOR1974
subprime1976
Euribor1997
1904 Bankers' Mag. Apr. 471 Interest at regular savings rates are allowed on such funds during the interim.
1935 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 43 546 The rate of savings for a given population is..a weighted average of the savings rates of its component income classes.
1994 S. R. Eastaugh Facing Tough Choices iii. 79 Americans could achieve a target savings rate of 8 to 9 percent if they were able to change behavior through incentives and disincentives.
2012 Guardian (Nexis) 3 Mar. (Money section) 6 When savings rates are so low.., it is vital to ensure your money is working hard for you.
savings scheme n. a scheme by which personal savings may be deposited at a bank or other financial institution, esp. by setting aside a portion of one's income on a regular basis.
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1880 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Sept. The postage stamp savings scheme... For the encouragement of small deposits in post office savings banks, by allowing twelve postage stamps, affixed to a form.., to be received as a deposit of a shilling.
1917 A. W. Atwood How to get Ahead iii. 40 Many persons are so constituted that they need a savings scheme with regular machinery that forces them to put something by.
1958 K.-N. Chang Inflationary Spiral xi. 255 In the early war years the [Chinese] government, aware of the necessity of increasing deposits and of keeping the increase in new money as low as possible, launched a number of savings schemes.
2012 Independent (Nexis) 23 June 56 An important thing to remember about a pension is that it is just a savings scheme, but for a specific purpose.
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savingadj.
/ˈseɪvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈseɪvɪŋ/ 1.
a. Theology. That preserves a person or soul from damnation; that offers redemption from sin.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [adjective] > causing
restoringa1398
savinga1400
redemptivec1429
safe-making1550
salvifical1581
redemptory1584
recovering1589
salvific1591
electing1673
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8097 Sceu vs þe sauuand tre, sir king.
a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 50 Brynge to ȝoure mynde þat sauand [a1500 Ashm. hoolefull; L. salutiferum] techinge.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 136 Thy sauing heill and rychteousnes.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 474 But to guide Nations in the way of truth By saving Doctrine. View more context for this quotation
a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 309 May I from his own Writings learn His Love, and Saving-Truths discern.
1712 A. Pope Messiah in Spectator No. 351 But fix'd His Word, His saving Pow'r remains.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. xxxi. 513 Even if faith be the saving principle, yet no man can have solid grounds to believe he has a saving faith, otherwise than by the fruits it bears.
1831 Preacher 17 Mar. 41/2 Your aim must be your own and the church's edification and perfection, perfect unity in the faith, and in the saving knowledge of Christ as the Son of God.
1879 Churchman 26 Apr. 467/2 Unseen but not unfelt, His saving presence is ever nigh.
1911 Advance 27 July 13/3 To Baptists..the Cross has meant an eternally judging, suffering and saving God; an historically judging, suffering and saving Christ; and a continuously judging, suffering and saving church.
2008 Daily Herald (Frederick, Maryland) 24 May (Neighbor section) 4/3 All persons who are interested in learning of the saving love of Christ Jesus.
b. That delivers, rescues, or preserves from danger; that protects or guards from anything undesirable.In quot. ?c1425: healing, curative; cf. save v. 3a.
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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [adjective] > that rescues or delivers
saving?c1425
rescuing1574
salvific1591
salvatory1830
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 598 (MED) Morelle, henbane, and popye..ben more sauande [L. saluiora] drye þan whan þai ben grene.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xii[i.] 5 My hert is ioyfull in thy sauynge health.
1674 D. Brevint Saul & Samuel 268 These saving Harbers.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables xxix. 29 There's No Living however without Law: and there's No Help for't in many Cases, if the Saving Equity be Over-rul'd by the Killing Letter of it.
1718 G. Sewell Proclam. Cupid 15 Woman..A Guardian Angel, and a Saving Saint.
1771 J. Page Let. 11 Oct. in F. Mason John Norton & Sons (1968) 199 As my House is very much out of Repair, I have engaged a Man to put it in a saving Condition next Spring.
1804 W. Wordsworth Vaudracour & Julia 194 The silver shower, whose reckless burthen weighs Too heavily upon the lily's head, Oft leaves a saving moisture at its root.
1894 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche (rev. ed.) xvi. 51 And with that lie the wounded man they slew, Hiding the saving truth which well they knew.
1916 D. Scott tr. F. Bulnes Whole Truth about Mexico ii. iii. 156 The revolutionary press..managed to pass Madero off as the saving hero.
2011 H. Y. Jung Transversal Rationality & Intercultural Texts v. xii. 211 Is there..a saving measure on earth to overcome our human-induced ecological crisis?
c. That delivers a person from moral or intellectual error; (of a quality) serving to mitigate (unqualified) condemnation or censure; redeeming. See also saving grace n. 2.
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the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [adjective] > that rescues or delivers > from moral or spiritual error
savinga1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 201 If euer thou beest mine, Kate, as I haue a sauing Faith within me tells me thou shalt. View more context for this quotation
1727 J. Thomson Summer 50 Send forth the saving Vertues round the Land, In bright Patrol.
1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 40 And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, ‘Keep your Piece nine years’.
1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington iv Foremost captain of his time, Rich in saving common-sense.
1875 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. (ed. 3) ix. 373 The obedience demanded by theology and the knowledge demanded by philosophy are alike saving.
1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 210 I am not, I believe, without a saving sense of humour.
2005 J. E. Person Earl Hamner i. 27 A person..tending towards the sentimental in temperament but with a saving measure of level-headed common sense.
d. As the second element in compounds: that redeems, rescues, protects, or preserves what is specified by the first element.health-, life-, soul-, world-saving, etc.: see the first element.
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1616 T. Gainsford Secretaries Studie sig. Q4v/2 All doe amisse, let all amisse amend: Self sauing workes are best deseruing praise.
1730 J. Swift Traulus I 3 Why must he..Revile that Nation-saving Paper?
1808 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 12 Nov. 739 The delicate, honour-saving mode of a Court of Inquiry was not, in this gentleman's case, thought necessary.
1898 Amer. Gardening 3 Sept. 619/3 The writer has conjured up an additional help that is simply wonderful as a back-saving invention.
1952 Life 17 Nov. 119/3 (advt.) This soothing, skin-saving benefit has been concentrated and intensified 25 times in these new shave creams.
1975 Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle 14 Nov. 9/1 An increasing number of Americans are leaning toward the view that pollution control is a planet-saving luxury we cannot now afford.
2010 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Feb. 3 The artist sat at her piano, before she leapt to her feet to reveal a transparent bodysuit with dignity-saving lace patches.
2.
a. Thrifty, frugal, economical.
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the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > [adjective]
sparingc1386
savingc1440
husbandlya1450
husbandlike1542
spareful1565
chary1570
dainty1576
partial1576
spare1577
parsimonious?1591
spary1601
scant1603
wary1605
frugala1616
spare-handed1626
squeasy1628
canny1725
scrimp1728
scrimping1823
sparesome1864
stinting1867
hard-arsed1893
c1440 (a1401) Life Bridlington in Neuphilol. Mitteilungen (1970) 71 144 (MED) Of his hauyng he was not hard, Bot sauand and ay true als stele.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. f. 88v If you will haue riches to be a help to Gentrie, it shall behooue a man rather to bee sauing [Fr. se reserrer], that he may be able to keepe himselfe rich.
1606 G. Chapman Monsieur D'Oliue i. i Indeed that's the savingst way.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 165 A Man had need, if he be Plentifull, in some kinde of Expence, to be as Sauing againe, in some other. As if he be Plentifull in Diet, to be Sauing in Apparell.
1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit x. 18 Not but that she lov'd Mony, for she was of a saving Temper.
1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 30 Be saving of your Candles.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xi. 84 Mrs. Crawley was a saving woman and knew the price of port wine.
1899 C. Vawter Of Such is Kingdom 58 They must be very saving, and not spend any more money than they could possibly help.
1922 J. M. Gibbon Pagan Love xv. 169 Being of a saving disposition he was able to suggest economies which seemed to give satisfaction.
1986 J. Edwards More Talk Tidy 34 Very savin' she is—she's a good one to handle the money.
1996 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 12 Apr. 17 My mother was a saving woman..and they made out fine.
b. As the second element in compounds: (of a device, practice, etc.) that conserves, or is economical in the consumption of, what is specified by the first element.labour-, space-, time-saving, etc.: see the first element.
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1802 Monthly Mag. Suppl. No., 20 Jan. 602/1 A want of fuel begins to be felt..in spite of the fuel-saving contrivances of Count Rumford.
1849 Friend's Rev. 21 July 708/1 It is hard to estimate the utility of this invention [sc. a new water wheel] as a power saving machine.
1919 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 92/2 There are many new carburetors and fuel-saving devices on the market today.
1966 R. C. Cochrane Meas. for Progress vii. 375 Inventive citizens besieged the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator with gas-saving devices.
1990 New Age Jrnl. Apr. 58/1 Even if you're not ready to spend a penny on new appliances or weatherizing, you can achieve significant reductions by practicing common-sense energy-saving practices.
2001 S. Roaf et al. Ecohouse (2002) x. 221 If everyone installed water-saving toilets and showerheads, we could substantially reduce domestic water consumption.
3. Incurring neither loss nor gain; not winning or losing. Now Canadian (Newfoundland): designating a fishing or sealing expedition that breaks even or returns a modest profit.
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the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [adjective] > that escapes > that escapes loss, but without gain
saving1600
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvi. 612 Semblably the Carthaginians, as they lost Capua, so they woon Tarentum, and made a saving game of it.
1614 N. Breton I would, & would Not lxxiii When weather-beaten Sailes, with winde, & raine, Scarce make a Sauing-Voyage home againe.
1632 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 478 The greate plentie of corne that remaines uppon their handes, and which they cannot utter at any saveing price.
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 2 July 2/1 Silvio..was resolved to make a saving Bargain of it.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 174 I have no great expectations from this plantation, though, I fancy, it will be a saving crop.
1770 H. Laurens Let. 20 Feb. in Papers (1979) VII. 237 Your Goods and ours by the Flora are nearly all sold and upon saving terms.
1826 W. Scott Malachi Malagrowther iii A country, where industry and skill can but play a saving game, at best, against national disadvantages.
1841 Commercial Formalities Rio de Janeiro (Maxwell, Wright & Co.) (rev. ed.) 29 It seldom occurs that a saving sale can be effected.
1894 New Rev. Nov. 498 One player may hold the bad hands all the evening, his partner holding the good cards..and have to play a ‘saving’ game all the evening.
1933 in E. B. Greenleaf & G. Y. Mansfield Ballads & Sea Songs Newfoundland 299 From that until the twenty-first all seemed bright and gay, And for to get a saving trip they killed and panned away.
?1977 W. J. Bursey Undaunted Pioneer 132 We both had made a saving voyage by keeping our traps in the berths.
4. That makes an exception, reservation, or proviso; esp. that provides an exemption from one or more of the conditions or obligations of a contract, statute, or other legal document. Frequently in saving clause.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adjective] > imposing conditions
circumstantiatinga1652
stipulatory1658
savinga1662
reserving1670
stipulating1737
qualificatory1739
conditioning1860
conditionating1888
a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) ii. v. 479 A saving clause was added to the Bill of Attainder.
1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 853 With a Saving Clause, that it should not be drawn into Example.
1774 D. Hume Let. 2 Apr. (1932) II. 290 I am glad to hear, that in your Bargain with him, you had a saving Clause to ensure you against Loss.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby l. 498 ‘Will you prevent me?’ asked Sir Mulberry, with a laugh. ‘Ye-es, if I can;’ returned the other, promptly. ‘A very proper saving clause, that last,’ said Sir Mulberry; ‘and one you stand in need of.’
1855 R. Browning Before 32 Now, enough of your chicane of prudent pauses, Sage provisos, sub-intents, and saving-clauses.
1888 J. L. Peyton Rambling Reminisc. x. 112 The host..was wont for many years to pledge novices..never to eat brown bread when they could get white, or to drink small beer, when they could get strong, &c.—but with a saving reservation always, ‘unless you like the inferior article better’.
1933 E. C. Wingfield-Stratford Victorian Aftermath i. viii. 86 Whatever sentiment the Colonial may harbour in his breast, it would always be with the saving proviso that business was business.
2004 J. Beck & A. Vale Drug & Med. Device Product Liability Deskbk. §5.02(3b) Where arguably conflicting preemption and saving clauses coexist in the same statute, the Supreme Court has analyzed implied preemption first.
Compounds
saving faith = justifying faith at justifying adj. Compounds.
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1540 R. Taverner Epist. & Gospelles Easter tyll Aduent f. ijv Yt true and sauynge fayth whych beleueth that Christ doth both saue vs and also taketh a continuall charge & regard of our saluation.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. xxxi. 513 Even if faith be the saving principle, yet no man can have solid grounds to believe he has a saving faith, otherwise than by the fruits it bears.
2004 Church Times 5 Mar. 13/1 It is all too easy to see such saving faith as meritorious in itself. Luther was adamant that we do not earn justness by our faith in Christ.
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1828 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 2nd Ser. 1 199 Upon this latter board, is placed the ‘material to be cut’, with a saving piece between it and the circular piece which is to be divided..into any number of parts required.
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savingprep.conj.
/ˈseɪvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈseɪvɪŋ/α. Scottish pre-1700 sailfand, pre-1700 salfand, pre-1700 salffand, pre-1700 salvand, pre-1700 salving, pre-1700 saulfand, pre-1700 saulfande, pre-1700 saulffing, pre-1700 saulfing.
β. Middle English safeyng (northern), Middle English safyng (northern), Middle English sauand (northern), Middle English saueinge, Middle English saueng, Middle English savand (northern), Middle English savant, Middle English 1600s saveing, Middle English–1500s sauyng, Middle English–1500s sauynge, Middle English–1500s savyng, Middle English–1500s savynge, Middle English–1600s savinge, late Middle English savun (perhaps transmission error), 1500s–1600s sauing, 1500s–1600s sauinge, 1500s– saving; also Scottish pre-1700 safand, pre-1700 saffand, pre-1700 saifand, pre-1700 saifane, pre-1700 saifeand, pre-1700 saiffand, pre-1700 saiffing, pre-1700 saifing, pre-1700 sauand, pre-1700 sauant, pre-1700 saueand, pre-1700 sauing, pre-1700 sauyng, pre-1700 savand, pre-1700 saveing, pre-1700 sawend, pre-1700 sawyn, pre-1700 sayffande, pre-1700 sevand.
γ. Scottish pre-1700 saufand, pre-1700 sauffand, pre-1700 sauffande, pre-1700 sauffing, pre-1700 sauuant, pre-1700 savffand, pre-1700 sawuand.
A. prep.† 3. But for; = save prep. 3. Obsolete.† 4. For lack of, in the absence of. Obsolete. rare.
1.
a. Chiefly Scottish in early use. Except, with the exception of; = save prep. 2a. Also in †all saving but: excepting only (obsolete).
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclusiveness [preposition] > except or excepting
savec1330
out-takenc1384
saving1386
other thana1425
savea1500
reserving1541
salvo1601
to set aside1610
abstracting from1614
save fora1616
sans1659
exclude1720
aside from1818
saufc1844
out-taking1848
secludinga1851
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclusiveness [preposition] > except or excepting > excepting only
all saving butc1450
only but1478
1386 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 9 The enhabitans of al Teuydale sauuant the forest of Jeddeworth.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1974 No man myghte gladen Theseus Sauyng his olde fader Egeus.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 139 (MED) His gudis wer all tane fro hym safeyng a mantill.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 3707 A lande, as þe buke tellis, a large & a noble, All sauand bot serpentis & oþire sere bestis.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid i. Prol. 155 The thre first bukis he hes ourhippit quyte, Salfand ane little twiching Polidorus, And the tempest sent furth be Eolus.
1569 Reg. Privy Council Scott. 1st Ser. II. 4 Sauffing suche as ar attaynted.
1602 J. Brereton Briefe Relation Discouerie Virginia 4 All the rest (sauing one that had a paire of breeches of blue cloth) were all naked.
1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Exod. v. 4) 16 Anie thing seem's due work to a carnal minde saving God's service.
1711 G. Mackenzie Lives Writers Sc. Nation II. 133 Conforming themselves to all its Rites and Ceremonies, saving only the Communion under Both Kinds.
1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 115 Saving Joanna Baillie, we had no very interesting people this season.
1893 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. (new ed.) viii. 302 There is no complete collection even of the poems, saving a privately printed one.
1976 ‘D. Fletcher’ Don't whistle ‘Macbeth’ 23 She was the only subject..only saving opera, on which Hugo van Brandon deigned to converse.
2009 W. C. Jordan Tale of Two Monasteries iv. 93 Lands and tenements..worth one hundred pounds annually were to be conveyed to them, saving only the homage and service due to capital lords.
b. Followed by a personal pronoun in the subjective case; = save prep. 2c. Now rare (archaic in later use).
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1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rev. ii. 17 And in the stone a newe name wrytten, which no man knoweth, savinge he that receaveth hit.
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 254 Al their people [were] cast away, sauing they, who escaped by vsing great diligence.
1595 E. Spenser Amoretti xxxv, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. C3 All this worlds glory seemeth vayne to me, And all their showes but shadowes sauing she.
1624 A. Batt tr. Medit. S. Augustin i. xxxvi. 138 in Heavenly Treasure (rev. ed.) Who is there, that can cleanse man from sinne, conceiued in the same, sauinge thou [1621 thee] alone?
1656 J. Bunyan Some Gospel-truths Opened 60 There was never any able to keep poor souls from falling from God, saving he that..is the true God.
1849 P. F. A. de Rohan Chabot Rockingham III. ix. 174 The bravest now gave way before us, saving he alone.
1875 E. Magnússon & W. Morris tr. Three Northern Love Stories 206 No man here is guilty against thee saving I alone.
1900 A. G. Heaton Heart of David 19 What maiden of the Hebrews saving thou, My well of wisdom, hath a higher place?
c. Followed by a personal pronoun in the objective case; = save prep. 2b. Now rare (archaic in later use).
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1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie sig. Bvv He hadde byd to diner the kynges seruantes, al sauyng hym and Sadoc, and Banaia.
1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. iv. xxv. f. 144v Right nowe haue I..looked in euery selle and bead, and of them all, sauing thee, haue I found not one occupied aboute the sauing of his owne soule.
1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον iv. 166 She..inuaded India, being the first that durst attempt it; and sauing her, none since but Alexander, who was the second and the last.
1668 H. Neville Isle of Pines 6 His ship split all in pieces; the whole company perishing in the Waters, saving only him and four women.
1705 A. Symson Tripatriarchicon 295 Potiphar..Caus'd all things to be At my disposal, saving only thee.
1849 P. F. A. de Rohan Chabot Rockingham xiv. 64/1 No one, saving her, has ever gazed upon me with such a look of intense and affectionate anxiety.
1871 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Sept. 458/1 Every one invited was present, saving only him whose presence she most desired.
1918 E. Williams Court of Belshazzar xxiv. 248 Hide the treasure, so that none saving thee can find it.
2. Preserving, without prejudice or harm to, with due regard for; = save prep. 1. Frequently in saving your presence.See also saving (a person's) reverence at reverence n. Phrases 2c.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > with respect for [preposition]
savinga1387
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1882) VIII. 79 Savynge his owne worschippe [L. salvo honore suo].
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 522 And fynally he dooth al his labour As he best myghte sauyng his honour To haste hem fro the mete in subtil wise.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 116v Therfore sothely me semeth sauyng your wille Hit is bettur þis bold kyng in the burgh hold.
1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 9 And zow (saifing zour dew honoris we speik).
1577 W. Fulke Overthrow & Confut. Doctr. Purgatory ii. xxi. 382 in Two Treat. against Papistes But sauing his wisedome, he must geue vs leaue to aunswere for our selues.
1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle ii. sig. D3v You lookt so grim, and as I may say it, sauing your presence, more like a Giant then a mortall man.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 71 Sauing your tale Petruchio, I pray let vs that are poore petitioners speake too? View more context for this quotation
1709 W. Reeves tr. Justin Martyr et al. Apol. II. 141 Pay as fearful a Respect, (saving your presence) to a Fart, as to your God Serapis.
1772 R. Cumberland Fashionable Lover v. 55 Saving your presence it ha' pleas'd my Laird to say, I am a rascall.
1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 284 His own opinions, which, saving the authority of the church, he was willing to defend.
1888 tr. C. Du Bois-Melly Nicolas Muss 55 That will I not, monsieur, saving your grace!
1907 E. Robins Convert ii. 24 There's nothing I should quite so much hate talking about as politics—saving your presence.
1948 M. Deasy Hour of Spring xxii. 283 There are men in these modern times, saving your presence, that can't visit a privy without searching out for a meaning behind it.
2006 R. Grant Another Green World (2007) 118 To join with others of our own kind to forge a ‘new nobility’—saving your feelings, sir, I'm simply quoting George here—‘whose warrant no longer derives from crown or escutcheon’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclusiveness [preposition] > except or excepting > but for
savingc1450
na warc1480
savec1522
saving for1523
c1450 (c1415) in W. O. Ross Middle Eng. Serm. (1940) 284 (MED) Asone as he is in anny dedely synne, he is even redy euer to be in hell peynes, savynge þe mercy of God.
1540 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 173 And to deliuer thair schip agane, with hir pertinentis, safand awentour of see, to the saidis Thomas and Robert.
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the mind > possession > non-possession > not having [preposition] > for lack of
savingc1540
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 19v I will say for my self sauyng a bettur As me thinkes full throly withoutyn threp more.
B. conj.† 2. With that-clause. Provided, on condition. Obsolete.
1. † c. ne saving but: but only sufficient to do something. Obsolete.
a. Chiefly Scottish in early use. Used to introduce a statement of fact that forms an exception to a statement in the main clause: except for the fact that; = save conj. 2a. Chiefly followed by that. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclusiveness [conjunction] > except
out-takea1325
save?c1335
out-takena1382
saving1395
saving?a1425
except that1569
1395 in G. D. MacRae Early Sc. Texts (1975) No. 4 Jon sal resyng al the landis..wyth al the fredomys..savand the for sayd Jon sal joys the frank tenement for the tym of his lyve.
1410 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1869) IV. 42 The foresaid Richard sall gar theke the same south eill covenably with lead, savand that the foresaid John sall gif thareto a fothir of lede.
c1455 Burgh Laws (Adv.) c. 85 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Safand Saufand that his spousyt wif aucht till haf..the innerhalf of the hous.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eccl. v. 12 And what pleasure more hath he that possesseth them, sauynge that he maye loke vpon them with his eyes?
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. iii. 8 The wilde kinde of Buglosse is like to the small Buglosses..sauing the leaues be rougher, smaller, and narrower.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. vi. 269 The flesh..tasteth not much vnlike to the flesh of a dunghill-cocke, sauing that it is more tough.
1672 J. Collins Let. 14 Mar. in I. Newton Corr. (1959) I. 119 I have not..heard from him since, saving that I was Instrumentall to send him..his late Bookes bestowed on him by Pitts the Bookseller.
1720 D. Manley Power of Love i. 40 The Count of Briançon's Affairs seemed to keep the same Situations, saving his Love more and more increased as his Hopes abated.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Animal An Otter's Tread is almost like that of a Badger, saving that his Toes..are longer one than another.
1832 J. S. Knowles Hunchback ii. i. 28 I know not the thing in which she is not changed, saving that she is still a woman.
1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. x. 79 His home, in such another street as the first, saving that it was narrower.
1902 A. Austin Tale of True Love 13 From it slope woodlands and long alleys shaded, Saving that all around it and more near Stretches wild chase by ploughshare uninvaded.
b. Followed by an adverbial phrase or clause, expressing the condition for or respect in which the statement in the main clause is not applicable; = save conj. 1a.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclusiveness [conjunction] > except
out-takea1325
save?c1335
out-takena1382
saving1395
saving?a1425
except that1569
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 89v, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Saving(e Þe pointes schal not ben loused to þe tyme þat þe wounde be flesschede, sauynge in þre cases.
1450 in W. S. Cooper Charters Royal Burgh Ayr (1883) 28 That the saide merchandis of Irwine..aucht to cum within..Are nouthir on the merkate day na yit nane uthir day of the wolk to tap na gudis of merchandise..sauffand anerly on the fare day.
1473 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 168 Wilzam beand alegyt and fre of al aucht and wunt seruys, savand gyfe in tyme of harueyst we gader our tendis that he supple and help efter as we neyd.
1538 T. Cranmer in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 590 To graunte hensforth none other lycence to any other printer, saving to theym, for the printyng of the said Bible.
1549 R. Crowley Voyce Laste Trumpet sig. Cviv Delite in nothyng Sauynge in doynge thy duty.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke iii. 144 I haue obserued your rule euery where sauing in the second and twelfth notes in the tenor part.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Suff. 54 Though the general breadth be but twenty [miles], saving by the Sea-side.
1738 Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 342 It is more eligible to forbear it, saving when the Vessels are large.
1792 D. S. Erskine Ess. Lives & Writings Fletcher & Thomson p. xxii To women..we have been indebted from the beginning for fortunate revolutions, saving in the case of Lady Adam, and even that is not carbonified by the strictest theologians.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. i. 37 Saving in the country I seldom go out until after dark.
1873 T. Brown Story of Blount Family iv. 68 I do not even find time to read, saving on Sundays.
1920 E. O'Donnell Menace of Spiritualism v. 100 Spiritualism is a cult that, saving in the case of the abnormal and weak-minded, rarely appeals to youth.
2001 E. Van Young Other Rebellion iii. 90 Economic want itself was rarely expressed as a direct motive of grievance, saving in the case of banditry.
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c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 4037 Sen at we Ioy nouthire gemmes ne Iuwels in cofirs, Pelour, pirre, ne perle, ne na proude wedis, Ne sauand bot to sustene with oure awen sary craftis.
d. saving for: but for, except as regards. Cf. save for at save conj. 1c.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclusiveness [preposition] > except or excepting > but for
savingc1450
na warc1480
savec1522
saving for1523
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cclxviii. 397 The duke of Lancastre..thought to haue gone and dyned in the frenchmens lodgynges (sauynge for the fyre and smoke that they had made wolde not suffre him).
1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Garden of Pleasure 99 There is a remedie for all things, sauing for death.
1611 Bible (King James) Matt. v. 32 Whosoeuer shall put away his wife, sauing for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery. View more context for this quotation
1652 J. Tombes Praecursor xii. 63 I gather that their [sc. Anabaptists'] conversation there is as other mens, saving for their rigid discipline and different opinions.
1736 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 574/2 Every Vessel coming to trade in this Province..shall pay each Voyage 5 s. per Ton..saving for that Part owned in Great Britain or this Province.
1763 R. Burn Eccl. Law I. 395 The jury found there was such a custom for all the ancient meadows, saving for certain called Barton meadows, for which tithes had been paid in kind.
1859 Accts. & Papers IX. 13 in Parl. Papers XXII The said college, under the provisions of their charter, have no power of disposition over the funds of the said college, saving for the corporate purposes declared by or implied in the said charter.
1877 A. C. Swinburne Note C. Brontë 54 Saving for her ‘plentiful lack’ of inborn baby-worship.
1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. viii. 198 The most eloquent and, saving for a single instance, admirable man, their cousin.
1920 C. Carswell Open Door iii. i. 277 Neither had he been away from London longer than a couple of days at a time, saving for two weeks during August, the two empty weeks which Joanna spent quite happily in Scotland.
1985 C. McCarthy Blood Meridian xiii. 169 They at once fell into conversation in a tongue none other in that room spoke at all saving for random vile epithets drifted down from the north.
2010 L. R. Burkard Country House Courtship 168 Every touch of his had been like that of a physician. (Saving for when he had to pull her back from leaving; but that was nothing!).
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > on condition that [conjunction]
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on condition thatc1369
purveyed1398
for why thata1400
providing1423
provided1430
proviso1434
savingc1450
provided1463
moyenant that?1473
on, upon (under, up, in, by, of, with) the (this, that, such, a) condition1535
providing1552
so as1585
condition1599
c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 71 Said Henry..‘I pray you to be with me.’ ‘Ser, in Godes name, savyng that it pleasse yow.’
1593 F. Knollys Let. 28 Feb. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. IV. 111 The which Clergie government they would have to be exempted from the temporall government, saving they speake not agaynst the Prynces government towching the supremacye.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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