The Only Use of
savor
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Judge Taylor savored his Sunday night hour alone in his big house, and churchtime found him holed up in his study reading the writings of Bob Taylor (no kin, but the judge would have been proud to claim it).
p. 285.1savored = took great pleasure from
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."