Definition of "savours" [savours]

• Plural form of savour. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of savour. (verb)

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• "I will not say that the Hanson family was Poor White, because the name savours of offence; but I may go as far as this - they were, in many points, not unsimilar to the people usually so-cared."
• "I will not say that the Hanson family was Poor White, because the name savours of offence; but I may go as far as this -- they were, in many points, not unsimilar to the people usually so-cared."
• ""Right; you're right, or nearly so," replied Harold; "but don't you think the word savours too much of perfection, seeing that breakfast would add to the pleasure of the present delightful state of things, and make them even more sailumterracious than they are?""