Defn: With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to. "Saving your reverence." Shak. "Saving your presence." Burns. None of us put off clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing. Neh. iv. 23. And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. Rev. ii. 17.
SAVING
Sav"ing, n.
1. Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.
2. Exception; reservation. Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty. L'Estrange. Savings bank, a bank in which savings or earnings are deposited and put at interest.
SAVINGLY
Sav"ing*ly, adv.
1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony.
2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland.
SAVINGNESS
Sav"ing*ness, n.
1. The quality of being saving; carefulness not to expend money uselessly; frugality; parsimony. Mrs. H. H. Jackson.
2. Tendency to promote salvation. Johnson.