Saviour vs Savour - What's the difference?
saviour | savour |
The specific taste or smell of something.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet), Ch.5:
*:He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour .
A distinctive sensation.
*(Richard Baxter) (1615-1691)
*:Why is not my life a continual joy, and the savour of heaven perpetually upon my spirit?
Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.
*(George Herbert) (1593-1633)
*:beyond my savour
to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
* Rev. Joseph Bellamy
to appreciate, enjoy or relish something.
As nouns the difference between saviour and savour
is that saviour is an alternative spelling of from=British|from2=Canadian|lang=en while savour is the specific taste or smell of something.As a verb savour is
to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality.savour
English
Alternative forms
* savor (chiefly US)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- This savours not much of distraction.
- I have rejected everything that savours of party.
- Begone, thou impudent wretch, to hell, thy proper place: thou art a despiser of my glorious majesty, and your frame of spirit savours of blasphemy.