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Favor   /fˈeɪvər/   Listen
noun
favor  n.  
1.
Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will. "Hath crawled into the favor of the king."
2.
The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending. "But found no favor in his lady's eyes." "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man."
3.
A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration. "Beg one favor at thy gracious hand."
4.
Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity. "I could not discover the lenity and favor of this sentence."
5.
The object of regard; person or thing favored. "All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man, His chief delight and favor."
6.
A gift or present; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding. "Wear thou this favor for me, and stick it in thy cap."
7.
Appearance; look; countenance; face. (Obs.) "This boy is fair, of female favor."
8.
(Law) Partiality; bias.
9.
A letter or epistle; so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.
10.
pl. Love locks. (Obs.)
Challenge to the favor or Challenge for favor (Law), the challenge of a juror on grounds not sufficient to constitute a principal challenge, but sufficient to give rise to a probable suspicion of favor or bias, such as acquaintance, business relation, etc. See Principal challenge, under Challenge.
In favor of, upon the side of; favorable to; for the advantage of.
In favor with, favored, countenanced, or encouraged by.
To curry favor, to seek to gain favor by flattery, caresses, kindness, or officious civilities.
With one's favor, or By one's favor, with leave; by kind permission. "But, with your favor, I will treat it here."
Synonyms: Kindness; countenance; patronage; support; lenity; grace; gift; present; benefit.


verb
Favor  v. t.  (past & past part. favored; pres. part. favoring)  
1.
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."
2.
To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
3.
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."





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"Favor" Quotes from Famous Books



... military men conveying praise or censure, or any mark of approbation, toward others in the military service, and all publications relating to private or personal transactions between officers are prohibited. Efforts to influence legislation affecting the Army or to procure personal favor or consideration should never be made except through regular military channels; the adoption of any other method by any officer or enlisted man will be noted in the military ...
— Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry • War Department
... to see that the store-keeper who had thus thrust himself into the young auctioneer's business was not in high favor with the residents of the country town. To tell the truth, the man was not liked by any one, and was only patronized by force of circumstances or through long-standing habit. He was a thoroughly mean man, and the fact that his trade had been falling ...
— Young Auctioneers - The Polishing of a Rolling Stone • Edward Stratemeyer
... battling for supremacy on the gridiron in their annual Thanksgiving Day contest. And, in spite of the fact that Hillton was on her own grounds, St. Eustace's star was in the ascendant, and defeat hovered dark and ominous over the Crimson. With the score 5 to in favor of the visitors, with her players battered and wearied, with the second half of the game already half over, Hillton, outweighted and outplayed, fought on with the doggedness born of despair in an almost hopeless struggle to avert ...
— Behind the Line • Ralph Henry Barbour
... illustrious personages of the age in which he lived. He had three patrons. One was Sir Walter Raleigh, in whose service he was; one was the Lord Bacon, whose well nigh idolatrous admirer he appears also to have been; the other was Shakspere, to whose favor he appears to have owed so much. With his passionate admiration of these last two, stopping only 'this side of idolatry' in his admiration for them both, and being under such deep personal obligations ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon
... Berkeley, and was possessed of moderate means, holding the living of Carrick-on-Shannon. He had married the sister of Goldsmith's father, but was now a widower, with an only child, a daughter, named Jane. Contarine was a kind-hearted man, with a generosity beyond his means. He took Goldsmith into favor from his infancy; his house was open to him during the holidays; his daughter Jane, two years older than the poet, was his early playmate, and uncle Contarine continued to the last one of his most active, unwavering, and ...
— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving


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