Spare vs Spake - What's the difference?
spare | spake |
scanty; not abundant or plentiful.
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sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
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Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
* Spenser
Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete, UK, dialect) slow
The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
* Holland
Parsimony; frugal use.
* Spenser
An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
That which has not been used or expended.
A spare part, especially a spare tire.
(bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
(bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
To show mercy.
# To desist; to stop; to refrain.
# To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
# To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy.
#* Bible, (w) vi. 34
#* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
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# To be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
#* (rfdate) (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
# To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
#* (rfdate) (John Milton)
#* (rfdate) Bible, Proverbs xvii. 27
# (transitive)} To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
#* (rfdate) (Knolles)
(to give up) To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
* (rfdate) (Roscommon)
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
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* , Genesis 8:15-16
As adjectives the difference between spare and spake
is that spare is scanty; not abundant or plentiful while spake is quiet; tame.As verbs the difference between spare and spake
is that spare is to show mercy while spake is simple past of speak.As a noun spare
is the act of sparing; moderation; restraint.spare
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) spare, spar, from (etyl) ‘thick’).Adjective
(er)- a spare diet
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- He was spare , but discreet of speech.
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- I have no spare time.
- if that no spare clothes he had to give
- a spare''' anchor; a '''spare bed or room
- O, give me the spare men, and spare me the great ones.
- (Grose)
Derived terms
* go spare * spare part * spare time * spare tire * spare tyre * spare wheelNoun
(en noun)- Killing for sacrifice, without any spare .
- Poured out their plenty without spite or spare .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) sparen, sparien, from (etyl) .Verb
(spar)- He will not spare in the day of vengeance.
- Kill me, if you please, or spare me.
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- I, who at some times spend, at others spare , / Divided between carelessness and care.
- [Thou] thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare .
- He that hath knowledge, spareth his words.
- All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty charge, he bestowed on serving of God.
- Where angry Jove did never spare / One breath of kind and temperate air.
- I could have better spared a better man.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
Anagrams
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) spake, spak, from (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) spak, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
- And God spake unto Noah, saying,
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.