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1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 2 Parce ac duriter uitam agit. He lyueth sauyngly and hardely.

1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 42 To leade our life sauinglie [L. parce], chastelie, sagelie, and soberlie.

1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 167 They begin to quaff at Ut, savingly.

1691 tr. Present State Europe Apr. 123 The Germans..live upon his [sc. the Duke of Mantua's] Lands not much more savingly than in a Conquered Country.

1704 E. Ward Satyr against Wine 12 Had not Old Ask thought tipling Wine a Guilt, And savingly drank Tiff upon the Tilt, His Hogsdon-Hospital had ne'er been Built.

1756 C. Smart tr. Horace Satires ii. ii, in tr. Horace Wks. II. 127 How much more savingly have either I lived, and how less neatly have you gone, my children, since this new possessor came.

1828 Southern Agriculturist Oct. 441 In wide-drilling and detached spots..manure can be used quite savingly.

1883 R. G. White Mr. Washington Adams in Eng. 7 Having lived savingly in the past on fewer hundreds a year.

1904 H. James Golden Bowl i. iv. 70 He edited, savingly, with the stump of a pencil, her redundant telegrams.

1977 Post-Herald & Reg. (Beckley, W. Va.) 39/1 (advt.) Other models in stock savingly priced.

a1602 W. Perkins Comm. Epist. Gal. (1604) vi. 465 Without meekenesse, we cannot sauingly heare the word, either read, or preached.

1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel 31 If any..come to beleeue otherwise then that Church teacheth them, to wit, sauingly, whence haue they that beleefe?

1648 W. Jenkyn Ὁδηγος Τυϕλος iv. 120 The naturall man hath no power to know savingly the things of the Spirit of God.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 260 I seriously pray'd to God that he would enable me to instruct savingly this poor Savage.

1770 B. Ingham Treat. Faith & Hope of Gospel ii. i. 132 No man can savingly believe in Christ, before he is revealed or made known to him by the Holy Ghost.

1812 Raleigh Reg. & N.-Carolina Gaz. 24 Jan. The consoling hope that his all-sufficient merits and compassion have been savingly extended to our late departed friends.

1877 W. Bruce Comm. Revel. 5 Practical love is the last link in the chain which connects man savingly with his Maker.

1920 C. B. Haynes Satan xi. 98 Nor is there one among the millions of Spiritualists who has been savingly converted to God by Spiritualism.

2010 T. Miles God of Many Understandings v. 206 Nonevangelical theologians have also looked to pneumatology, suggesting that the Holy Spirit is at work savingly in religious others [i.e. non-Christians].