unspared

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ spared

Adjective[edit]

unspared (not comparable)

  1. Not spared.
    • 1897, John Ruskin, Love's Meinie[1]:
      It is only here and there, by Duerer, Holbein, Carpaccio, or other such men, that we get a living bird rightly drawn;[18] but we may be greatly thankful for the unspared labor, and attentive skill, with which many illustrations of ornithology have been produced within the last seventy or eighty years.
    • 1900, William Stearns Davis, A Friend of Caesar[2]:
      Cornelia knew later, when she was older and had thought more, that the queen had instantly caught the defiant mood of her guest, and thereupon left nothing unspared to conciliate it.

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