"unsparing" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From un- + sparing.",
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      "form": "more unsparing",
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          "ref": "1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 133:",
          "text": "Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's \"Motive Power Miscellany\" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.",
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        "Without sparing; liberal; profuse; thorough."
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          "sparing",
          "spare"
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        [
          "liberal",
          "liberal"
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        [
          "profuse",
          "profuse"
        ],
        [
          "thorough",
          "thorough"
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      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "thorough",
          "word": "tōtōpū"
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          "ref": "1980 February 9, Andrea Loewenstein, “James Baldwin and His Critics”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 10:",
          "text": "[Giovanni's Room] is clearly written out of interior torment, and is an unsparing account of a man fighting against himself. It is certainly not a pleasant book, and David, the narrator, is not \"nice\" […] but even in its negative ending, it makes a strong statement in favor of self knowledge and accepting one's sexuality.",
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        "Pulling no punches; brutal as opposed to politic."
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          "pull punches"
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  "word": "unsparing"
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      "word": "unsparingly"
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  "etymology_text": "From un- + sparing.",
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          "ref": "1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 133:",
          "text": "Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's \"Motive Power Miscellany\" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.",
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        "Without sparing; liberal; profuse; thorough."
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          "liberal",
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          "profuse",
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        "Pulling no punches; brutal as opposed to politic."
      ],
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "thorough",
      "word": "tōtōpū"
    }
  ],
  "word": "unsparing"
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