saving (adj.) Copy link • saving (adj.): Phr.: a s. clause, perh. exceptio: v. exception: reservation. Or expr. by carere: cf. Liv. 21, 18, med., Saguntini excipiuntur (there is a s. clause in favour of the Saguntines): also, quum caveretur utrorumque sociis (though there was a s. clause in favour of the allies of both parties to the treaty).