savingly

From saving +‎ -ly.

savingly (comparative more savingly, superlative most savingly)

1. So as to save; with frugality or parsimony.
2. So as to save (e.g. from sin/hell/eternal death)
   • 1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discurse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica, page 112:

     But this Itch in spite of Morals will be catching, and the beginning natural pleasure will often urge the smartful end, especially in the precipitant Youth, who scarcely sufficiently dread the Fire till they have been savingly burnt.

   • 1738, Daniel Waterland, The Christian sacrifice explained:

     savingly born of water and the Spirit

• “savingly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.