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verb

Favor v. t. (past & past part. favored; pres. part. favoring)

To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards. "O happy youth! and favored of the skies." "He that favoreth Joab,... let him go after Joab." "(The painter) has favored her squint admirably."

To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.

To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father. "The porter owned that the gentleman favored his master."

adjective

Favored adj.

Countenanced; aided; regarded with kindness; as, a favored friend.

Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.

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Etymology of 'Favored'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Favored" Quotes from Famous Books

... institutions is the same, and their influence, which has been exercised since 1848 in opposition to humanitarian and internationalist ideas, has encountered no serious obstacles, for it went readily with certain old instincts which it was not difficult to reawaken and which general circumstances favored. ...

— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... his companions by such glimpses of occult science as that the world is round and that the sun is relatively stationary. He wrote, for his own amusement and edification, essays on politics, of which gentlemen of standing who had been favored with a perusal said with authority, at the cross-roads grocery, "The world can't beat it." One or two of these compositions got into print and vastly increased the author's local fame. He was also a magnanimous boy, with a larger and kindlier spirit than common. His generosity, ...

— Abraham Lincoln: A History V1 • John G. Nicolay and John Hay

... close all the shutters on the first floor of the cottage. But the "blinds" had not been closed on the east side of the house since they were painted the previous spring. Aunt Alviry was the kind of housekeeper who favored the morning sun and it always streamed into the windows of the ...

— Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island - The Old Hunter's Treasure Box • Alice Emerson

... of the last. There was nothing, then, to show Macalister whether the explosion would come before his quick muscles could complete their movement, or whether long seconds would elapse before the bomb burst. It was an even chance either way, so he took the one that gave him most. Fortune favored him, and the roar of the explosion followed his flying heels over ...

— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)

... her nose, but she favored his dirt and rags with a look of disapprobation he could ...

— Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories - Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews • Jack London

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