Another word for savour

" The salt which has lost its savour " (Matt.

Some such idea plainly underlies the familiar phrase "a sweet savour," more literally "a savour of satisfaction," whereby an acceptable offering by fire is so often denoted in the Bible (Gen.

We cannot indeed regard them,with the ancients, as the best part of his history, for the majority of them are obviously unhistorical, and nearly all savour somewhat too much of the rhetorical schools to be perfectly agreeable to modern taste.

Theology loses its savour when studied in a spirit of merely scientific curiosity; and it does not concern the lay Christian.

they could only be prevailed on to man the walls by the savour of extempore cook-shops distributed along the ramparts.