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Definition of Spared
1. spare [v] - See also: spare
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spared
Literary usage of Spared
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"other places of public entertainment, be forborne till farther order and allowance,
and that the money thereby spared be preserved, and employed for the ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... the seventh, a severe thunderstorm accompanied by destructive hail; the eighth,
a plague of locusts that ate what the hail had spared; the ninth, ..."
3. Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testament by John Brown (1818)
"7 But the kins: spared Mephibosheth,¡ 19 And there was again a battle in Gob ß
But the king .... spared ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... the guilty princess had been sent away, as an object of horror, from Constantinople
to Italy : her life was spared ; but the ceremony of her marriage ..."
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