save

«save» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: except — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

except

part of speech

preposition (also conjunction), meaning except

meaning for a pupil

Except; apart from. ("None save the LORD" means "no one except the LORD.") tree →

how it differs from today

Today save mostly means rescue or keep money; as except it is old-fashioned. The first two sentences use except; the third uses rescue, as today.

examples

• He that sacrificeth unto the gods, save unto the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed. (Torah EXO.22.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• Save de pacin' mar' fer Sunday. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) tree →
• For he found her in the field; the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her. (Torah DEU.22.27, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

save

tests

manual 9; corpora 404 (Torah 17, tales 386, Sefer Yetzirah 1); EWT 26; ratio 0.9 (Torah alone 0.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And God sent me before you to give you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive for a great deliverance.
• And they said: 'Thou hast saved our lives.
• But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.
• (22-19) He that sacrificeth unto the gods, save unto the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.
• And Moses said unto them: 'Have ye saved all the women alive?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «save» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.