verb
definition
To show mercy.
definition
To keep.
definition
To give up To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
Examples of spared in a Sentence
Another dead end, but at least he spared the girl.
A story is told that Cromwell spared the town from bombardment owing to the wit of a woman who drank his health at the town-gate.
Comparatively few relics of the early town have been spared by time and the improvements of the modern city.
He admired her intelligence, loved her, and spared her life.
His life was spared, and he was sent by Octavian to Spain as governor.
At least it made their traditional religion possible for those many French Catholics who clung passionately to the benefits the Revolution had brought them; and had it prevailed, it might have spared France and the world that fatal gulf between Liberalism and Catholicism which Pius IX.'s Syllabus of 1864 sought to make impassable.
On receiving a promise that his life would be spared, the last of the house of Timur surrendered to Major Hodson; he was afterwards banished to Rangoon.
Baladhuri is said to have spared no trouble in collecting traditions, and to have visited various parts of north Syria and Mesopotamia for this purpose.
When this hope had died away, they surrendered to the Nana on his solemn promise that all their lives should be spared and that they should have a safe conduct to Allahabad.
Ludovico was taken prisoner and carried to France; the city, which had been strictly spared on the first entry of Louis XII., was entered and sacked; and the model of Leonardo's great statue made a butt (as eye witnesses tell) for Gascon archers.
Later on, as he approached his second youth (he was spared a second childhood), he tended to a more pagan view.
Philip, having been driven on the English coast when going to take possession of his Spanish kingdom, was entertained at Windsor by Henry VII., to whom he promised to deliver up the fugitive on condition that his life should be spared.
His father had spared their lay chiefs, and contented himself with burning preachers or tradesmen.
As a rule the towns suffered little or nothingthey submitted to the king of the moment, and were always spared by the victors.
He was captured, but the king again spared his life, though he was placed for the future in a dungeon where he could see neither moon nor sun.
But in the Protestant districts neither age nor sex was spared; even the dead were dug up and burnt.
If the two men could have worked together, England might have been spared many misfortunes.
Thus was England spared the crisis of a bloody revolution, and proof given to the world that her ancient constitution was sufficiently elastic to expand with the needs of the times.
If money could be spared, moreover, for the remission of taxation, the paper duties were much less oppressive than those on some other articles.
But at any rate Burke's own office was not spared.
When the Reformers attacked the abbey church in March 1560, they spared the nave, which served as the parish church till the 19th century, and now forms the vestibule of the New church.
Lord Beaconsfield has been praised for his integrity in money matters; the praise could have been spared - it does not rise high enough.
Among them are the sagas of Thorgils and Haflidi (I118-1121), the feud and peacemaking of two great chiefs, contemporaries of Ari; of Sturla (1150-1183), the founder of the great Sturlung family, down to the settlement of his great lawsuit by Jon Loptsson, who thereupon took his son Snorri the historian to fosterage, - a humorous story but with traces of the decadence about it, and glimpses of the evil days that were to come; of the Onundar-brennusaga (1185-1200), a tale of feud and fire-raising in the north of the island, the hero of which, Gudmund Dyri, goes at last into a cloister; of Hrafn Sveinbiornsson (1190-1213), the noblest Icelander of his day, warrior, leech, seaman, craftsman, poet and chief, whose life at home, travels and pilgrimages abroad (Hrafn was one of the first to visit Becket's shrine), and death at the hands of a foe whom he had twice spared, are recounted by a loving friend in pious memory of his virtues, c. 1220; of Aron Hiorleifsson (1200-1255), a man whose strength, courage and adventures befit rather a henchman of Olaf Tryggvason than one of King Haakon's thanes (the beginning of the feuds that rise round Bishop Gudmund are told here), of the Svinefell-men (1248-1252), a pitiful story of a family feud in the far east of Iceland.
These were at once accepted; he was requested to sit on the Naval Retiring Board - a board then specially constituted for clearing the navy of unfit or disloyal officers - and a few months later was appointed to the command of the "Western Gulf Blockading Squadron," with the rank of flag-officer, and ordered to proceed forthwith, in the "Hartford," to the Gulf of Mexico, to collect such vessels as could be spared from the blockade, to proceed up the Mississippi, to reduce the defences which guarded the approaches to New Orleans, and to take and hold the city.
Sir William Drury in Munster hanged four hundred persons in one year, Sir Nicholas Malby in reducing the Connaught Burkes spared neither young nor old, and burned all corn and houses.
The dynamiters were for the most part Irish-Americans, who for obvious reasons generally spared Ireland, but one land-agent's house in Kerry was shaken to its foundations in November 1884.
On the other hand she spared no pains to recover lost Danish territory.
On several occasions Lancaster was suspected of intriguing with the Scots, and it is significant that his lands were spared when Robert Bruce ravaged the north of England.
For thirty-four years of increasing warfare this active the Fat and energetic king, this brave and persevering soldier, (1108 never spared himself, energetically policing the royal 1137).
Alphonso, who during his exile owed some good services to the Mahommedan king of Toledo, spared that city while his friend lived.
But once he married a clever princess called Shahrazad, who spent the marriage night in telling a story which in the morning reached a point so interesting that the king spared her, and asked next night for the sequel.
Those humans who are willing to serve the immortals will be spared, and those who aren't, won't.
As the man who raised her while her father ruled Tiyan, he alone was spared the poisonous wrath of the demon.
The armies of vampires spared no one.
His queen took pity on them, and asked if the brave burghers could also be spared if the town surrendered.
Thus the heavy cannonade which the Light Division had been under was at a most important moment arrested and thus spared the Guards.
The bishop might have spared his visit, but since he offered that civility, they could not keep him at the gate.
The auction lasted for three days and nothing was spared from the auctioneer's gavel.
Where history has the impertinence to locate a fine piece in the provinces, no expense may be spared getting it to London.
But at least I'll be spared the indignity of having to wake up at 6.30am on a Sunday morning.
Despite these serious inroads into the family's finances Lord Bath has not spared himself to improve the existing Longleat holding.
Under-age sex youth spared jail A teenager who had sex with an 11-year-old girl has been put on probation for three years.
Doctor, long may you be spared, to have fun and enjoyment and to annoy your little stoats to the maximum!
His mother, at least, was spared the pain of reading the official war office telegram.
Meantime, no exertion must be spared, and no means left untried, to make our position known.
As if to emphasize the spirit and purpose of the rebellion, one and only one of the Roman soldiers was spared, because he promised to become a Jew even to the extent of circumcision.
Marius, having assured them that their lives would be spared, removed them to the Curia Hostilia, intending to proceed against them according to law.
Russell himself, in petitions to Charles and James, offered to live abroad if his life were spared, and never again to meddle in the affairs of England.
The centre of Florence, which was becoming a danger from a hygienic point of view, was pulled down in 1880-1890, but, unfortunately, sufficient care was not taken to avoid destroying certain buildings of historic and artistic value which might have been spared without impairing the work of sanitation, while the new structures erected in their place, especially those in the Piaza Vittorio Emanuele, are almost uniformly ugly and quite out of keeping with Florentine architecture.
Neither class cared to bestow jewels upon their persons, but neither spared thought or expense in the embellishment of the object they most loved.