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noun

Savor n. (Written also savour)

1.

That property of a thing which affects the organs of taste or smell; taste and odor; flavor; relish; scent; as, the savor of an orange or a rose; an ill savor. "I smell sweet savors and I feel soft things."

2.

Hence, specific flavor or quality; characteristic property; distinctive temper, tinge, taint, and the like. "Why is not my life a continual joy, and the savor of heaven perpetually upon my spirit?"

3.

Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent. (R.) "Beyond my savor."

4.

Pleasure; delight; attractiveness. (Obs.) "She shall no savor have therein but lite."

Synonyms: Taste; flavor; relish; odor; scent; smell.

verb

Savor v. t.

1.

To perceive by the smell or the taste; hence, to perceive; to note. (Obs.)

2.

To have the flavor or quality of; to indicate the presence of. (R.) "That cuts us off from hope, and savors only Rancor and pride, impatience and despite."

3.

To taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in; to relish; to like; to favor. (R.)

Savor v. i. (past & past part. savored; pres. part. savoring) (Written also savour)

1.

To have a particular smell or taste; with of.

2.

To partake of the quality or nature; to indicate the presence or influence; to smack; with of. "This savors not much of distraction." "I have rejected everything that savors of party."

3.

To use the sense of taste. (Obs.) "By sight, hearing, smelling, tasting or savoring, and feeling."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Savor" Quotes from Famous Books

... love; hatred breeds hatred. Love and good will stimulate and build up the body; hatred and malice corrode and tear it down. Love is a savor of life unto life; hatred is a savor of death ...

— In Tune with the Infinite - or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty • Ralph Waldo Trine

... prayers in a girls’ school. Here was a fellow who should have been captain of a ship or a soldier, a leader of forlorn hopes. I felt sure there must be a weakness of some sort in him. Quite possibly it would prove to be a mild estheticism that delighted in the savor of incense and the mournful cadence of choral vespers. He declined a cigar and this rather ...

— The House of a Thousand Candles • Meredith Nicholson

... time to dream dreams? If he bases his claims of worth on his ability as a "carpet-duster," [Footnote: See Aurora Leigh.] as Mrs. Browning calls the agitator, he is merely unsettling society,—for what end? He himself will soon have forgotten—will have become as salt that has lost its savor. Nothing is more disheartening than to see men straining every nerve to make other men righteous, who have themselves not the faintest appreciation of the beauty of holiness. Let reformers beware how they assert the poet's uselessness, our singers say, for it is an indication ...

— The Poet's Poet • Elizabeth Atkins

... their accursed oppressors; whispers of a great deliverer at hand, whose mysterious Labarum, or mighty banner of the Cross, was already dimly descried through northern mists, and whose eagles were already scenting the carnage and "savor of death" from innumerable hosts of Moslems; whispers of a revolution which was again to call, as with the trumpet of resurrection, from the grave, the land of Timoleon and Epaminondas; such were the preludings, ...

— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

... just now," Mr. Harvey continued, "that such a thing had never happened, so far as I was aware, in any European country. My own words seem to suggest something to me. These methods are not European. They savor more of the East." ...

— The Illustrious Prince • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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