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savour
/ ˈseɪvə /
noun
- the quality in a substance that is perceived by the sense of taste or smell
- a specific taste or smell
the savour of lime
- a slight but distinctive quality or trace
- the power to excite interest
the savour of wit has been lost
- archaic.reputation
verb
- introften foll byof to possess the taste or smell (of)
- introften foll byof to have a suggestion (of)
- tr to give a taste to; season
- tr to taste or smell, esp appreciatively
- tr to relish or enjoy
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Derived Forms
- ˈsavourless, adjective
- ˈsavorous, adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of savour1
C13: from Old French savour, from Latin sapor taste, from sapere to taste
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Example Sentences
Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.
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These poems, of a savour so exquisitely strange, cost him no more than any badly rhymed commonplace.
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Some fruit was boiling on a stove, giving out a fragrant savour, and Elise's eye was on it mechanically.
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Brother Jackson made a motion with his mouth, as though he were tasting some pleasant savour.
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And as for emotions—such as anger, or religion, or fear—he would attempt none whose savour he had not tasted for himself.
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