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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNSPA'RING, a.
1. Not parsimonious; liberal; profuse.
2. Not merciful or forgiving.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain" [syn: lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting]
2: not forbearing; ruthless; "an unsparing critic"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1586 1. not merciful or forbearing ; hard, ruthless <an unsparing satire> <an unsparing critic> 2. not frugal ; liberal, profuse <unsparing generosity> • unsparingly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 lavish, profuse. 2 merciless. Derivatives: unsparingly adv. unsparingness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unsparing Un*spar"ing, a. [Pref. un- not + sparing, p. pr. of spare.] 1. Not sparing; not parsimonious; liberal; profuse. --Burke. 2. Not merciful or forgiving. [R.] --Milton. -- Un*spar"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*spar"ing*ness, n.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Liberal, profuse, lavish, bountiful, generous, ungrudging. 2. Unmerciful, unforgiving, severe, harsh, rigorous, inexorable, relentless, ruthless, uncompromising.

Moby Thesaurus

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