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comparative more sparing, superlative most sparing
Prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal. examples
present participle and gerund of spare examples
plural sparings
The act by which something or someone is spared. quotations examples
The sparings of my frugality have, however, in a sufficient degree, augmented my originally scanty patrimony; […]
1830, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), The Manners of the Day, volume 2, page 322