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Favour vs Savour - What's the difference?

favour | savour |

As nouns the difference between favour and savour

is that favour is while savour is the specific taste or smell of something.

As verbs the difference between favour and savour

is that favour is while savour is to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality.

favour

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1611 , :
    • "And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured , the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." —
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}

    Usage notes

    * is the standard American spelling, and an alternative in Canada. ----

    savour

    English

    Alternative forms

    * savor (chiefly US)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • *
  • *: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

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This savours not much of distraction.
  • * Addison
    • I have rejected everything that savours of party.
  • * Rev. Joseph Bellamy
    • 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.
  • to appreciate, enjoy or relish something.