温馨提示:本站仅提供公开网络链接索引服务,不存储、不篡改任何第三方内容,所有内容版权归原作者所有
AI智能索引来源:http://www.wehd.com/87/Spareful.html
点击访问原文链接

† Spareful. World English Historical Dictionary

† Spareful. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2025. † Spareful a. Obs. [f. SPARE sb.1 or v.1] Sparing, frugal.

1 1565.  Stapleton, trans. Bede’s Hist. Ch. Eng., 107. How sparefull personnes he and his predecessours were, and how greatly they absteined from all pleasures, euen the place, where he bare rule, did witnesse.

2 1599.  Life More, in C. Wordsw., Eccl. Biog. (1853), II. 112. She was also sparefull, and somewhat given to niggardliness.

3 1600.  Fairfax, Tasso, IV. xxx. Her sparefull eie to spread his beames denaies.

4   Hence † Sparefully adv.; † Sparefulness.

5 1570.  Jewel, View of Seditious Bull (1582), 53. They labour truely, they liue sparefully.

6 a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 214. Largesse his hands could neuer skill of sparefulnesse.

7 1618.  Ryves, in Camden’s Lett. (1691), 236. We know how sparefully S. Augustine speaketh of them in his books De civitate Dei.

8 © 2025 WEHD.com

智能索引记录