All 3 Uses
savor
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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- The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours; I must go seek some dew-drops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.†
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- PYRAMUS 'Thisby, the flowers of odious savours sweet,' QUINCE Odours, odours.†
Scene 3.1
- PYRAMUS '—odours savours sweet: So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisby dear.†
Scene 3.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(savor) to take great pleasure from; or the quality enjoyed
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(2)
(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."