Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SAV'ING
SAV'ING, n.
- Something kept from being expended or lost. By reducing the interest of the debt, the nation makes a saving. – Anon.
- Exception; reservation. Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty. – L'Estrange.
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