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Definition of Savourless
1. Adjective. Lacking taste or flavor or tang. "Vapid tea"
Similar to: Tasteless
Derivative terms: Blandness, Flatness, Flavorlessness, Flavourlessness, Insipidity, Insipidness, Savorlessness, Savourlessness
Definition of Savourless
1. Adjective. (alternative form of savorless) ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Savourless
Literary usage of Savourless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1888)
"Hence the savourless salt is " good for nothing, but to be cast out, and trodden
under foot of men." It is not therefore he who suffers persecution, ..."
2. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom (1888)
"Hence the savourless salt is " good for nothing, but to be cast out, and trodden
under foot of men." It is not therefore he who suffers persecution, ..."
3. The Bible Herald (1880)
"Thus then any one of you who forsakes not all that is his own cannot be my disciple.
Salt, then, is good but if the salt also has become savourless ..."
4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1865)
"But how could she practise euch flagrant, foul hypocrisy as to pretend to ask
for t lioso heavenly gifts which seemed to her so savourless and insipid, ..."
5. The Poems of Alexander Hume (?1557-1609) by Alexander Hume (1902)
"Tread ye down savourless salt " seems preferable to "Tread ye us as savourless
salt." The saying is a conversion of S. Mat. v. 13 into a direct counsel. ..."
6. The Poems of Alexander Hume (?1557-1609) by Alexander Hume, Alexander Lawson (1902)
"Tread ye down savourless salt " seems preferable to "Tread ye us as savourless
salt." The saying is a conversion of S. Mat. v. 13 into a direct counsel. ..."
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