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savourless, a.|ˈseɪvəlɪs|
Also 6 saverles, Sc. sairles, 7, 9 savorless, 9 Sc. sareless, saurless.
[f. savour n. + -less.]
Destitute of savour; tasteless or odourless; of immaterial things, void of interest or efficacy, insipid.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. xx. (1495) 67 The tongue is sauourles that he maye the better take all maner sauour of thynges. 1552Huloet, Sauourles or wythoute sauoure, inodorus. 1627Donne Serm. xxii. (1640) I. 223 In my grave..I..shall be all insipid, tastlesse, savourlesse dust. 1633Bp. Hall Occas. Medit. §128. 319 The rose-tree hath a sweet flowre, but a savour-lesse root. 1657Trapp Comm. Ps. xxxiv. 8 All flesh is savourles to him that hath tasted of the Spirit. 1886Bruce Mirac. Elem. Gosp. ii. 74 Cast out as savourless salt. 1907Outlook 12 Oct. 451/2 Most of his jests when repeated seem almost savourless.
Hence ˈsavourlessness.
1841H. F. Chorley Music & Manners III. 179 The intrinsic savourlessness of the Mass which it [the orchestra] was performing, a fade composition by Morlacchi. |