Be pleased your plitics to spare.
Dryden.
Spare my sight the pain Of seeing what a world of tears it costs
you.
Dryden.
3. To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure,
or harm; to show mercy to.
Spare us, good Lord.
Book of Common Prayer.
Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages.
Milton.
Man alone can whom he conquers spare.
Waller.
4. To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some
occupation, use, or duty.
All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty
charge, he &?;estowed on . . . serving of God.
Knolles.
5. To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to
dispense with; to give up; to part with.
Where angry Jove did never spare One breath of kind and temperate
air.
Roscommon.