| 单词 | to make etc spare |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make (no, etc.) spare ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adverb] > mercilessly unsparelya1225 without sparea1300 without(en) grith13.. mercilessc1425 unmercifully1536 mercilesslya1576 unsparinglya1631 inclemently1789 the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > be or become pitiless [verb (transitive)] > treat without mercy to cast one's mitten1589 to make (no, etc.) spare1591 (a) (b)1591 in F. Bacon Genesis New Eng. Ch. (1874) 127 They have made no spare or conscience to accuse..and punish us.1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 80 Our souldiors..rifled rich villages full of corne and cattell, making spare of none.1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron 4 Little lesse spare was made in the villages round about.1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 421 Cut them off..and make no spare of any of them.a1300 Cursor Mundi 2909 Bot þan com dome [= doom] witouten spare, To þaa þat lang was spared are. c1380 Antecrist 136 in Todd Three Treat. Wyclif (1851) If þai wil noght turn til his lare, He sal þam sla wituten spare. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 3974 Iacob dred esau sare For he was fel wiþouten spare. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 139 To wipe away all shamefull dishonour, as whetting their anger against such..perfidious enemies, without spare. to make (no, etc.) spare a. The exercise of economy, frugality, or moderation. Chiefly in the phrase to make (no, etc.) spare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > [noun] sparing1377 sparingc1386 spelingc1420 parsimony?a1475 parcity1509 frugality1531 spare1577 spare1577 sparingness1579 sparefulnessa1586 savingness1668 frugalness1727 spareness1826 chariness1849 1577 J. Grange Garden in Golden Aphroditis sig. Pj To spende and make no spare, he must himselfe incline. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Cc4 Whiles fruitfull Ceres, and Lyæus fatt Pourd out their plenty, without spight or spare. 1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xlvii. 14) 361 Bidden to eate..what he pleased, and make no spare. 1850 F. S. Merryweather Glimmerings in Dark 36 The canons of the Church..injoined them to be bountiful in their charity and to use no spare in their hospitality. 1891 Spectator 19 Sept. 377/2 We may be able to make shift with 19 million quarters of foreign and Colonial Wheat. It is certainly desirable to make spare, as we may do if we have an abundant potato-crop. < as lemmas |
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