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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xiii. i. 647 Þe..liȝtnesse and sauorynesse þerof [sc. of rain water] sheweþ the subtilnesse of here substaunce.

c1484 J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 184 Þat wytt qwyche longith to þe tonge is made be þe wey of tast and sauour, and þer-to longyn ix spycis..sauyrines (or sqwetnes), scharpnes, [etc.].

1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. G.j These be my priests, the seasning of the earth Which wil not leese, their Savrinesse, I trowe.

1617 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) III. 587 In quhome thair is nocht so muche sauorines or witt as in the quhyte of ane egge!

1683 N. Grew New Exper. 9 Alkaline Salt, in the opinion of some Water-Drinkers, gives a kind of Sweetness or Savouriness to Water, as Salt to their Pottage.

1711 J. Graile Ess. Advice Young Gentry iii. 113 Could you relish any Sweetness or Savouriness in your Mirth and Jollity..when the Almighty did write bitter things against you?

1790 A. Young Jrnl. 18 Jan. in Trav. France (1792) i. 277 All sorts of vegetables have a savouriness and flavour, from rich sauces, that are absolutely wanted to our greens boiled in water.

1801 Sketch of Paris I. xxxviii. 455 The savouriness of their cooking.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. v. 123 His mental palate..found a savouriness in a quotation from Sophocles or Theocritus that was quite absent from your text in Isaiah or Amos.

1904 Epicure May 203/2 It was the exceeding savouriness of their frying that tempted me to go all the way downstairs to see what it meant.

1935 A. Nin Diary June (1967) II. 42 France is old. It has the flavor, the savoriness, the bouquet, the patina of ancient things.

2010 Observer 14 Mar. (Food Monthly Suppl.) 42/2 Mole, a dense, deep thick sauce with..a robust ripe savouriness.

1657 T. Manton Pract. Comm. Jude 127 That are faln back and have lost the savouriness of their spirits, and their delight in communion with God.

1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel Pref. p. liii This was the tenour of the Testimony..which they witnessed with great savouriness and assurance.

1702 R. Evans Holy Emulation Urged 3 Our Saviour would have his Followers to be distinguish'd from others by the Purity of their Aims, Savouriness of their Expressions, and Unblameableness of their Conversations.

1770 J. Gill Body Pract. Divinity III. ii. vi. 304 A verbal declaration..may best discover the true affection of the heart, and the savouriness of a man's spirit.

1838 Evangelical Mag. & Missionary Chron. Jan. 26/1 There was an honest savouriness in her conversation, which habitually turned on heavenly things.

1879 A. B. Grosart Representative Nonconformists 335 These my closing selections will alternately illustrate his savouriness and quaint felicity of wording.