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verb

Save v. t. (past & past part. saved; pres. part. saving)

1.

To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames. "God save all this fair company." "He cried, saying, Lord, save me." "Thou hast... quitted all to save A world from utter loss."

2.

(Theol.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life. "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners."

3.

To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve. "Now save a nation, and now save a groat."

4.

To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare. "I'll save you That labor, sir. All's now done."

5.

To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare. "Will you not speak to save a lady's blush?"

6.

To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of. "Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit."

To save appearances, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things.

Synonyms: To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve; prevent.

Save v. i. To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical. "Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material."

preposition

Save prep., conj. Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving. "Five times received I forty stripes save one."

Synonyms: See Except.

noun

Save n. The herb sage, or salvia. (Obs.)

conjunction

Save conj. Except; unless.

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Etymology of 'Save'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... another not yet be ripe, at any rate he is not cut off from the possibility of sharing, more or less unconsciously, in the benefit of the spiritual current flowing through the Mysteries. "The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." Henceforward even those who cannot yet share in initiation may enjoy some of the fruits of the Mysteries. Henceforth the Kingdom of God was not to be dependent on outward ceremonies: "Neither ...

— Christianity As A Mystical Fact - And The Mysteries of Antiquity • Rudolf Steiner

... taking to the water—some of whom were armed—so that the majority of the men were carried down with the ship. Many who were very good swimmers were dragged to the bottom by the force of the suction. All our men who were still on the surface tried by all the means in their power to save their lives. It was the unhappy fate of some of them to reach the enemy's ship itself where those heretics hastened to receive them with pikes, and speared them with great cruelty. Among those they wounded Captain Gomez de Molina with a lance; however he continued to swim thus wounded, ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume XI, 1599-1602 • Various

... the Men the Legislature had in View. When that Law was made, it was well known, from what was observed of Thieves, Pickpockets, and House-breakers, that those Common Villains will do any Thing to get Money, and still more to save Life, when they are conscious that it is forfeited. The Knowledge of this was the Foundation of that Law. For the Worst of Rogues have Friendship and Affection for one another; and Constancy, Faithfulness, ...

— A Letter to Dion • Bernard Mandeville

... reference to military activities, but rarely indeed do we find a document devoted primarily to the narration of warlike deeds. Side by side with these building inscriptions were to be found dry lists of kings, sometimes with the length of their reigns, but, save for an occasional legend, there seem to have been no detailed histories. It was from the former type that the earliest Assyrian inscriptions were derived. In actual fact, we have no right to call them historical in any sense of the word, even though they are our only ...

— Assyrian Historiography • Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead

... within a brief period of the Declaration of Independence, hoped to retain their connection with Great Britain. Congress declared, even after armies had been raised to resist the red-coats, that this was not with the design of separation or independence. Even the mobs cried "God save the king!" Washington said that until the moment of collision he had abhorred the idea of separation: and Jefferson declared that, up to the 19th of April, 1775 (the date of the battle of Lexington), "he had never heard a whisper of a disposition to ...

— The Nation in a Nutshell • George Makepeace Towle

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