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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Save \Save\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Saved}; p. pr & vb n.
{Saving}.] [OE. saven, sauven salven, OF salver, sauver, F.
sauver, L. salvare, fr salvus saved, safe. See {Safe}, a.]
1. To make safe; to procure the safety of to preserve from
injury, destruction, or evil of any kind to rescue from
impending danger; as to save a house from the flames.
God save all this fair company. --Chaucer.
He cried, saying, Lord, save me --Matt. xiv.
30.
Thou hast . . . quitted all to save A world from
utter loss --Milton.
2. (Theol.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its
penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and
spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
--1 Tim. i.
15.
3. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or
expenditure; to lay up to reserve.
Now save a nation, and now save a groat. --Pope.
4. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to
prevent from doing something to spare.
I'll save you That labor, sir. All's now done
--Shak.
5. To hinder from doing suffering, or happening; to obviate
the necessity of to prevent; to spare.
Will you not speak to save a lady's blush? --Dryden.
6. To hold possession or use of to escape loss of
Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of
merit. --Swift.
{To save appearances}, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid
exposure of a discreditable state of things
Syn: To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve;
prevent.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
saved
adj 1: rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin;
"a saved soul" [ant: {lost}]
2: guarded from injury or destruction [syn: {protected}]
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