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savingly en · ADV

Etymology

From saving + -ly.

Meanings

1. So as to save; with frugality or parsimony.
2. So as to save (e.g. from sin/hell/eternal death)
   • 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:
   • savingly born of water and the Spirit 1738, Daniel Waterland, The Christian sacrifice explained:

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