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unˈsavouriness
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†1. Want of savouriness; insipidity. Obs.
1398Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xix. lii. (1495) kk iiij, The nynthe sauour hyght werysshenesse & vnsauerynesse. 1548Elyot, Insulsitas,..foolysshenesse, vnsauourynesse, lacke of grace. 1721Bailey, Insipidity, Unsavouriness, Flatness.
2. The quality of being unsavoury or disagreeable.
1557in Hakluyt Voy. (1598) I. 296 Any anoyance, stinke, or other vnsauorinesse..in the shippe. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxxiii. 7 It is an unsaverines not worthy the disproving. 1617Woodall Surg. Mate (1639) 356 If any person, for the unsavourinesse of a medicine, will refuse helpe [etc.]. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. x. 202 If we concede a nationall unsavourinesse in any people, yet shall we finde the Iewes lesse subject hereto then any. 1664T. Gouge Chr. Directions xx. 173 The unsavouriness of thy words and speeches. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. iii. 44 The Sea affords Variety of Fish, but not savoury. I believe their unsavouriness proceeds from the extreme Saltness of the Sea-water. 1765Sterne Tr. Shandy vii. xxxii, In the little peevish contentions of nature betwixt hunger and unsavouriness. 1864R. Kerr Gentlem. House 291 Flies..follow their noses, and their presence..is but an index of unsavouriness. 1884Manch. Exam. 23 Sept. 5/2 Mudbanks..in their unsightliness and unsavouriness when exposed. |