Both Uses of
savor
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- Bag End seemed a more desirable residence than it had for years, and he wanted to savour as much as he could of his last summer in the Shire.†
Chpt 1.3 *savour = take great pleasure fromunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it savor.
- But he remembered that there was bread, surpassing the savour of a fair white loaf to one who is starving; and fruits sweet as wildberries and richer than the tended fruits of gardens; he drained a cup that was filled with a fragrant draught, cool as a clear fountain, golden as a summer afternoon.†
Chpt 1.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(savor) to take great pleasure from; or the pleasure or flavor enjoyed
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, savory can refer to an aroma or flavor that is not sweet, or to a specific spice of the mint family or related plants.
Even more rarely, savor can mean to have traces of -- as when Alexander Hamilton wrote "Its situation must always savor of weakness."