SPARING Copy link • SPARING(Of things), angustus: tenuis. (The words are found in this connection and order.) tenuis et angustus: exiguus: parvus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) tenuis et exiguus (☞ parcus, in this use of it, only in the poets; the best prose writers apply it exclusively to persons). (Of persons), parcus (the proper word): restrictus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) parcus et restrictus: tenax. (The words are found in this connection and order.) parcus et tenax: restrictus et tenax: frugi (comparative, frugalior, superlative, frugalissimus; the positive frugalis was not in use): malignus. To be sparing of anything, parce dare aliquid (e.g., civitatem Romanam parcissime dedit, Suet., Oct., 40). So sparing was he of time, tanta alicui erat parsimonia temporis (Plin., Ep., 3, 5, 12).