| 释义 |
ˈsavingly, adv.
[f. saving ppl. a. + -ly2.]
1. In saving, a sparing, or frugal manner.
1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices i. (1558) 47 To leade our life sauinglie [L. parce], chastelie, sagelie, and soberlie. 1673R. Head Canting Acad. 167 They begin to quaff at Ut, savingly. 1883R. G. White Wash. Adams 7 Having lived savingly in the past on fewer hundreds a year.
2. Theol. In a way that ensures salvation. Common in the 17th c.
1629H. Burton Babel no Bethel 31 If any..come to beleeue otherwise then that Church teacheth them, to wit, sauingly, whence haue they that beleefe? 1648W. Jenkyn Blind Guide iv. 120 The naturall man hath no power to know savingly the things of the Spirit of God. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. 260, I seriously pray'd to God, that he would enable me to instruct savingly this poor Savage. 1877W. Bruce Comm. Rev. 5 Practical love is the last link in the chain which connects man savingly with his Maker. |