c1390 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Vernon) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 280 (MED) Loke after non oþur felyng in þi wittes, ne seke after non oþur bodili swetnes nouþer souning ne sauoryng ne wonderful liȝt.

c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 94 Heil þou berere of þe flour, Of hos swete sauerynge Tornen to lyf in an hour Þe dede.

a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 73 Ete in þat tyme..veel with venegre..and frutys of egre sauouryng.

1574 tr. Life 70. Archbishopp Canterbury sig. Cv^v If they had been closed in lead, and well spiced,..they might haue been kepte from sauoringe yet a while.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §959 Thy fiue wittes, that been sighte, herynge, smellynge, tastynge or sauourynge, and feelynge.

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 42 Ne that shulde not meeve thee that at the taast and at the sighte, at the smellinge and at the savouringe, bred and wyn it may seeme thee.

?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 59 Touchinge, and cussinge and saueringe made of fals delite that Eue dede to ete the apill.

1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. i. xxiv. f. lxxiiii^v Se that suppose we feil suggestioun to syn, other be euil thochtis remembrance, sycht, heiring, smelling, sauering, tasting & tweching.

1643 K. Digby Observ. Religio Medici 62 Not having a relish or tast moulded and prepared to the savouring of them.

1672 J. Ives Contention for Truth 51 The Text under consideration, Heb. 6. Speaks of such a tasting, as Implies a savouring of heavenly things.

1855 R. F. Burton Personal Narr. Pilgrimage to El-Medinah I. i. 12 The savouring of animal existence; the passive enjoyment of mere sense.

1872 G. A. Sala in Belgravia Jan. 347 Callipash and callipee had taught him what exquisite pleasures result from the savouring of toothsome food.

1919 S. Kaye-Smith Tamarisk Town i. ii. 50 To-night he was almost young in his savouring of the moment.

1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 8 Feb. 337/1 Just why olfaction is of greater importance to some people than to others in the savoring of foods is not clear.

2007 S. Henigman Grave in Air 65 They paced towards his ugly, low rise building, each step simultaneously a savouring and a mounting of tension.

1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid i. Prol. 44 Ȝit with your leif, Virgill..I wald..Write sum savoring of thi Eneados.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. xviii. 13 Canel, and amome [a1425 L.V. amonye; L. cinnamomum], that is, a swete saueringe tree.

?a1450 tr. Macer Herbal (Stockh.) (1949) 79 This herbe..wole destroye þe colde..if it be drunke in wel sauered water or in oþer saueryng [v.rr. sauordde, sauoryd] þinges.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. i. 2 The highe Almaignes do call it..sweete smelling, or sauering Southrenwood.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 44 Sueit sairing flouris.

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 55 Cynamon Water..helpeth a bad or euill sauouring breath.

1740 G. Jones Welsh Piety 56 Faith and Charity..are but empty Names, or dead ill-savouring Carcases without Life.

1784 P. Oliver Script. Lexicon 13 A sweet savoring meadow.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 157 Father Clement's pile would be a sweet savouring sacrifice, and a beacon to all devout Christians.

1904 W. B. Yeats King's Threshold 15 Persuade him To turn his mouth from the ill-savouring grave And eat good food.

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres i. xcv. sig. F He that had no thought so hie to clime, (With sauoring comfort still allur'd along).

1714 tr. J. Racine Britannicus ii. 30 With utmost Art I steal a savouring Moment.

1887 A. Webster Sentence i. i. 11 Women have a savouring joy in wrongs.

1919 ‘S. McCall’ Christopher Laird xxviii. 247 He moved very softly, the big hand upraised that a finger might give its prehensile and savouring touch.

1964 P. Anderson Time & Stars 79 I drew a savoring breath before going around with Lejeune to make sure our landing gear was properly set.

1988 A. Kleinman Illness Narr. iv. 79 Under the surface lives a personality of great complexity with a marvelous imagination, a love of talk, and a savoring sense of words.

2004 Toronto Star (Nexis) 15 May n17 We..tasted the olives with savouring bites.

1857 T. Alexander Great High Priest within Veil iv. 111 He was sent into the world, not to condemn it: but that the world through Him should be saved. So are we in the world. We are its lights, its savouring salt.

1881 G. G. Scott Ess. Hist. Eng. Church Archit. iv. 155 Those various elements of truth which have been the savouring salt of all the religions of humanity.

1886 Athenæum 17 Apr. 517/2 The lotos there has its sweets sharpened with a savouring bitterness.

1939 A. H. Limouze Homeland Harvest vi. 179 The leadership and the influences that may be the savoring salt of other races and lands.