Savours in A Sentence

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    Probity is stamped on his features; his conversation savours of true piety and profound learning.

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    The doctrine of latency is mystical and savours of Plato's reminiscence (anamnesis).

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    The spread of toleration, which always savours minorities, broke down between 1845 and 1873 the Lutheran exclusiveness of Norway, Denmark and Sweden; but as yet the Catholics form a disappearing fraction of the population.

    4

    The work upholds the doctrine of resistance, but affirms that resistance must come from properly constituted authorities and objects to anything which savours of anabaptism or other extreme views.