spareful

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spareful

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adjective more spareful · most spareful

obsolete Abstemious; Lacking in appetite or vitality. I admonish them, therefore, to be more spareful in their diet, and so they shall gain health to their bodies, and comfort to their purse.
Similar: abstinent, temperate, abstemious, abstentious, sober, spareful
obsolete sparing; chary. Lucullus was a niggard of his meat, And spareful of his cups seem'd Anthony;
Similar: abstemious, parsimonious, canny, chary, moderate, cheap, close with a buck, economic, economical, frugal, provident, husbandly
dated frugal. But Erasmus added, "And yet such as she was, being also spareful and given to profit, he so framed and fashioned her by his dexterity that he lived a sweet and pleasant life with her, and brought her to that case, that she learned to play and sing at the lute and virginals, and every day at his retu

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@misc{spareful_2026,
  title = {spareful},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/spareful},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}