saving (saving)

[Verbal n. of savel, v.] 1. Economy in expenditure or outlay, or in the use of materials, money, etc.; avoidance or prevention of waste or lo in any operation, especially in expending one's earnings.-2. A reduction or le ening of expenditure or outlay; an advantage resulting from the avoiding of waste or lo : as, a saving of ten per cent. The bonele ne and the available weight of the meat constitute a saving. of 5d . a pound in a leg of mut ton. Saturday Rev., XXXV. 691. 3. pl. Sums saved from time to time by the exercise of care and economy; money saved from waste or lo and laid by or hoarded up. Enoch set A purpose evermore before his eyes, To hoard all savings to the uttermost. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. The savings of labor, which have fallen so largely into the hands of the few,.. have built our railroads, steamships, telegraphs, manufactories. Pop. Sci . Mo., XXV. 792. 4. Exception; reservation. Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty. Sir R. L'Estrange. saving (sa'ving), p . a. [Ppr. of savel , v.] 1. Preserving from evil or destruction; redeeming. Scripture teaches us that saving truth which God hath discovered unto the world by revelation. Hooker , Eccles. Polity, iii. 8. It is given to us sometimes. to witne the saving influence of a noble nature, the divine efficacy of rescue that may lie in a self-subduing act of fellowship. George Eliot , Middle march. save; unle . Rewarde and behold what gift will be hauyng; Vnto you with-say neuer shall hire me, Sauyng and excepte only o gift be. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5528. I could see no notable matter in it [the Cathedral church], saving the statue of St. Christopher. Coryat , Crudities, I. 29. Hardly one Could haue the Lover from his Loue descry'd,. Sauing that she had a more smiling Ey, A smoother Chin, a Cheek of purer Dy. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 6. Thou art rich in all things, sauing in goodne . Dekker , Seven Deadly Sins, Ind., p. 9. 2. Regarding; having respect for; with apol ogy to. See reverence. Saving your reverence. Shak ., Much Ado, iii. 4. 32. You looked so grim, and, as I may say it, saving your presence, more like a giant than a mortal man. Beau . and Fl ., Knight of Burning Pestle, ii. 8. savingly (sā'ving-li), adv . 1. In a saving or sparing manner; with frugality or parsimony. - 2. So as to secure salvation or be finally saved from spiritual death: as, savingly converted. To take or accept of God and his Christ sincerely and savingly is proper to a sound believer. Baxter , Saints' Rest, iii. 11.