Witness vs Savour - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between witness and savour

is that witness is to see or gain knowledge of through experience while savour is to appreciate, enjoy or relish something.

As nouns the difference between witness and savour

is that witness is attestation of a fact or event; testimony while savour is the specific taste or smell of something.

As verbs the difference between witness and savour

is that witness is to furnish proof of, to show while savour is to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality.

witness

English

Noun

(es)

Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.

She can bear witness , since she was there at the time.

* Shakespeare

May we with the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?

One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.

As a witness to the event, I can confirm that he really said that.

* Shakespeare

Thyself art witness I am betrothed.

* R. Hall

Upon my looking round, I was witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret.

Someone called to give evidence in a court.

The witness for the prosecution did not seem very credible.

Something that serves as evidence; a sign.

* Bible, Genesis xxxi. 51, 52

Laban said to Jacob, This heap be witness', and this pillar be ' witness .

Derived terms

* expert witness * eyewitness * key witness * principal witness

Verb

(es)

To furnish proof of, to show.

This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.

* 1667': round he throws his baleful eyes / That '''witness'd huge affliction and dismay — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1 ll. 56-7

To take as evidence.

To see or gain knowledge of through experience.

He witnessed the accident.

* R. Hall

This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of modern infidelity.

* Marshall

General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace.

To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.

* 1998 , "Niebuhr, Reinhold", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy , volume 6?, page 842

Instead, Niebuhr's God was the God witnessed to in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, the Bible of the Christian world.

To see the execution of (a legal instrument), and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity.

to witness a bond or a deed

Synonyms

* certify

Anagrams

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.