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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

... inferior race had conquered the superior, disorganizing the country and perturbing the world. Celtism was the inventor of Democracy, of the doctrines of Socialism and Anarchy. Now the hour of Germanic retaliation was about to strike, and the Northern race would re-establish order, since God had favored it by ...

— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... well be five thousand," said the minister, shaking his head. "No, my good friend, I must toil on as well as I can, and leave European trips to more favored men." ...

— Helping Himself • Horatio Alger

... noticed, seemed to draw himself up very stiff and dignified when she stopped and spoke to us; and the look with which he favored MacRae was a peculiar one. It was simply a vagrant expression, but as it flitted over his face it lacked nothing in the way of surprised disapproval; I might go farther and say it was malignant—the kind of look that makes a man feel like reaching for a weapon. At least, ...

— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... we go beyond such cases as Norway and Switzerland and take countries much less favored, it is always a mystery as to why people live in them. It is very difficult to understand, for example, why there are settlers in Labrador, or why people are fond of Greenland as a home; none the less these things are so. ...

— The Geneva Protocol • David Hunter Miller

... of books suitable for readers of these volumes will cover every department of literature and lead into the reading favored by adults. The majority of these lists deal with literature. They contain the names of those books which are distinctly helpful, and from which young readers may derive nothing to corrupt taste or give false impressions of life. They are the standard books of the language. ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester

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