Definition of "savoured" [savoured]

• Simple past tense and past participle of savour. (verb)

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• "Others objected rather to his manner than to his matter; the title savoured of levity, and an art-critic writing on theology was supposed to be wandering out of his province."
• "Presently: "Fool!" he whispered, but the word savoured more of pitying tenderness than of scorn."
• "Perhaps on second thoughts, Sir Thomas felt that the phrase savoured of that presumption which is supposed to provoke the wrath of Nemesis; and at any rate, he, of all men, is the last to be taken too literally at his word."