savingly

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adverb

So as to save; with frugality or parsimony.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adverbsavingly (comparative more savingly, superlative most savingly)

comparative more savingly · superlative most savingly

  1. So as to save; with frugality or parsimony.
  2. So as to save (e.g. from sin/hell/eternal death)

    savingly born of water and the Spirit

    1738, Daniel Waterland, The Christian sacrifice explained
    1 more example

    But this Itch in spite of Morals will be catching, and the beginning natural pleasure will often urge the smartful end, especially in the precipitant Youth, who scarcely sufficiently dread the Fire till they have been savingly burnt.

    1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discurse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica, page 112

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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