SPA'RINGLY, adv.
1. Not abundantly.
2. Frugally parsimoniously not lavishly. High titles of honor were in the king's minority sparingly granted, because dignity then waited on desert. Commend but sparingly whom thou dost love.
3. Abstinently moderately. Christians are obliged to taste even the innocent pleasures of life but sparingly.
4. Seldom not frequently. The morality of a grave sentence, affected by Lucan, is more sparingly used by Virgil.
5. Cautiously tenderly.
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