savour's Usage Examples:

He had a stern love of justice, and a determined hatred of everything savouring of jobbery or dishonesty.

they could only be prevailed on to man the walls by the savour of extempore cook-shops distributed along the ramparts.

But incidentally the scandals of the palace had a large and unsavoury part in the political troubles of Spain.

Some such idea plainly underlies the familiar phrase "a sweet savour," more literally "a savour of satisfaction," whereby an acceptable offering by fire is so often denoted in the Bible (Gen.

To Fenelon such employment was clearly uncongenial; and if he was rather too ready to employ unsavoury methods - such as bribery and espionage - among his proselytes, his general conduct was kindly and statesmanlike in no slight degree.

They are, however, though antique and interesting, somewhat dismal and unsavoury.

They even tell me wonders I myself never dreamed of!Within them was found the Fountain of Youth; the pebbles which give light, restore sight, and render the possessor invisible; the Sea of Sand was there, stored with fish of wondrous savour; and the River of Stones was there also; besides a subterranean stream whose sands were of gems.

At a later period, pari passe with the spiritualization of the god, comes a refinement of the tastes attributed to him, and the finer parts of the sacrifice, finally it may be only its savour, are alone regarded as acceptable offerings.

In that year he published Theological Essays, wherein were stated opinions which savoured to the principal, Dr R.

He was attacked by Flacius and Amsdorf, and after a long controversy, full of ambiguities and lacking in the exhibition of guiding principles, he was condemned because his statement savoured of Pelagianism.

Thus it frequently happens that in our gardens flowers have a beauty and a fragrance, and fruits a size and savour denied to them in their native haunts.

) viewed these proceedings with suspicion, as savouring of paganism, heresy and republicanism.

Synonyms:

flavour, flavor, season, savor,

Antonyms:

off-season, suffer, unequal, dissimilitude, unlikeness,