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Definition of Savoring
1. Noun. Taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality. "Cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most"
Generic synonyms: Eating, Feeding
Derivative terms: Degust, Savor, Savour, Taste
Definition of Savoring
1. Verb. (present participle of savor) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Savoring
1. savor [v] - See also: savor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Savoring
Literary usage of Savoring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"... (least common and savoring of an easy-going style) the substantive takes no
article before it, because it would have none if the attributive were ..."
2. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1880)
"[~By the older authorities the act was held to] extend to every description of
property savoring of the realty: as, the Property privilege by a grant from ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"In such case the court may with perfect propriety carry out the intention provided
the personalty savoring of realty is sufficient to pay the legacies to ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland (1886)
"... as being against public policy and savoring of maintenance.1 A right of action
to recover damages for an injury to property, real or personal, may, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Larceny and Kindred Offenses Such as Adulteration by Stewart Rapalje (1892)
"Things savoring of the realty; derelict property, etc. 46. Animals. 47. Larceny of
one's own property. 48. Larceny of property jointly owned. cj 40. ..."
6. My Rambles in the Enchanted Summer Land of the Great Northwest During the (1882)
"the romance weavers do—savoring of poetry and a dear old-fashioned affection that
somehow shuns the great cold palaces, and shrinks away from the mysterious ..."
7. A Manual of Equity Jurisprudence: For Practitioners and Students, Founded on by Josiah William Smith, Edward Chase Ingersoll (1878)
"... and the personalty savoring of realty is sufficient for the payment of legacies
to individuals, and though the will does not throw the legacies to ..."
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