ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. MDu. ongespaert (Du. ongespaard), MLG. ungesparet, MHG. (and G.) ungespart; ON. úsparðr (Sw. ospard, Da. usparet, dial. uspard).]
1. Not spared or reserved. † Also in loose const., without sparing, unsparingly.
13[?]. St. Erkenwolde, 335, in Horstm., Altengl. Leg. (1881), 273. With vnsparid murthe.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), I. 504. Euerilk man, baith ill and gude vnspaird, As he had wrocht, sall get ane just rewaird.
1667. Milton, P. L., X. 606. Thou therefore … whatever thing The Sithe of Time mowes down, devour unspar’d.
1881. Ruskin, Love’s Meinie, iii. § 87. Unspared labour, and attentive skill.
† 2. Indispensable. Obs.–1
1614. T. Adams, Physicke fr. Heaven, Wks. (1629), 291. No Physitian then cures of himselfe; no more then the hand feedes the mouth;… though the Physitian and the hand be vnspared instruments to their seuerall purposes.
