Meanings of savoured more in English

For indeed her feeling for Dermot so far savoured more of hero-worship than of love.

When he heard it, he felt that the respect paid him savoured more of pretence than of love.

Even in this present parting there had been a prudence, an exercise of reasoning, that savoured more of duty than love.

Syburg continued deaf to his remonstrances; and, with an obstinacy that savoured more of stupidity than of valour, determined to stand the explosion.

This man merely touched him on the shoulder and pointed to his horse with an air that savoured more of command than courtesy.

He observed, that injunctions against entering into that or any other public station, savoured more of monastic or puritanic austerity than true piety.

But to this scheme Calderon brought an energy, a decision, a vehemence, and sagacity of hatred, that savoured more of personal vengeance than religious persecution.