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/sˈeɪvərɪŋ/ Listen

verb

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

To have a particular smell or taste; with of.

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."

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

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Etymology of 'Savoring'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... matters ecclesiastical, and the antiquity thereof, which I did the rather because the spiritual men began in those days to swell higher than ordinary, and to take it as an injury to the Church that anything savoring of the spirituality, should be within the cognisance of ignorant laymen. The gentlemen and freeholders seemed well pleased with my charge, and the management of the business of the sessions; and said they perceived one might speak as good sense in a falling-band ...

— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson

... distinct impression that she had thrown herself on his neck and kissed him violently, in a transport of delight. In the silent room, still fragrant, still echoing with her passage, he closed his book, and later his eyes, and sat with the expression of a connoisseur savoring an exquisite, a ...

— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield

... ship, delivers to her friends, and so sends from him, the woman concerning whom a little before he declared that he loved her better than his wife; and in that action did nothing unbecoming or savoring of fond affection. Also Phoenix, when his father bitterly cursed him for having to do with one that was his ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch

... sprang up and descended the stairs. The tap-room was lighted with candles, and the sober burghers who sat within, savoring the early ale, scarce noted my entrance, so intent were they listening ...

— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers

... he sat there, savoring all the pent-up bitterness poured out for him by destiny, there came a patter of padded feet in the hallway, the scrape of nails, a sniff at the door-sill, a whine, a frantic scratching. He leaned forward and opened the door. His Highness landed on the ...

— A Young Man in a Hurry - and Other Short Stories • Robert W. Chambers

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