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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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"Savoring" Quotes from Famous Books

... are rather pretty," said Henry. He was conscious of an admiration for the old blue-and-white ware with its graceful shapes and quaint decorations savoring of mystery and the Far East, but he realized that his view was directly opposed to his wife's. This time Sylvia spoke quite in earnest. As far as the Indian china was concerned, she had her convictions. She was a ...

— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... place, enough to include the whole party. He next gathered dry twigs and leaves, and made a fire, upon which he threw certain drugs and dried herbs which he had brought in his basket. A thick smoke rose, diffusing a potent odor, savoring marvellously of brimstone and assafoetida, which, however grateful it might be to the olfactory nerves of spirits, nearly strangled poor Wolfert, and produced a fit of coughing and wheezing that made the whole grove resound. Doctor Knipperhausen ...

— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving