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Favorable adj. (Written also favourable)

Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. "Lend favorable ears to our request." "Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land."

Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient. "A place very favorable for the making levies of men." "The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life."

Beautiful; well-favored. (Obs.) "The favorableness of the present times to all exertions in the cause of liberty."

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"Favourable" Quotes from Famous Books

... a favourable impression from the reading of the Nigger of the Narcissus, a book of mine which had also been published lately. I was ...

— Notes on Life and Letters • Joseph Conrad

... the special cause of our imprisonment; being now convict as traitors for the maintaining thereof. We have been ever waiting with joyfulness to give the last testimony of our blood in confirmation thereof, if it should please our God to be so favourable as to honour us with that dignity; yea, I do affirm, that these two points above-written, and all other things which belong to Christ's crown, sceptre and kingdom, are not subject, nor cannot be, to any other authority, but ...

— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie

... hardly worth while taking a cab to Bond Street, and I intended to cross in front of King Charles's statue. It is an awkward place, and a lot of 'buses, cabs, and vans were bowling along downhill from the Strand and St. Martin's Church. I waited a moment on the kerbstone, watching for a favourable opportunity, when suddenly I was pitched head foremost in front of a passing 'bus. My escape from instant death was solely due to the splendid way in which the driver handled his horses and applied his brake. The near horse was ...

— The Stowmarket Mystery - Or, A Legacy of Hate • Louis Tracy

... with, 1467-1471, witnessed the rise of the trading class and the beginning of religious freedom in England. Lytton leans to the Lancastrian cause, with which the fortunes of one of his ancestors were identified, and his view of Warwick is more favourable to the redoubtable "king-maker" than that ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. • Various

... five times across the mysterious place, the rod pointing steadfastly toward the zenith all the while, our friend became grave and began to philosophize. "Well," said he, "you see, your temperament is peculiar; the conditions ain't favourable in your case; there are some people who never can work these things. But there's water below here, for all that, as you'll find, if you dig for it; there's nothing like a ...

— Myths and Myth-Makers - Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology • John Fiske

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