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Favor
FA'VOR, n. [L. favor, faveo.]
1. Kind regard; kindness; countenance; propitious aspect; friendly disposition.
His dreadful navy, and his lovely mind,
Gave him the fear and favor of mankind.
The king's favor is as dew on the grass. Prov 19.
God gave Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh. Acts 7.
Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain. Prov 31.
2. Support; defense; vindication; or disposition to aid, befriend, support, promote or justify. To be in favor of a measure, is to have a disposition or inclination to support it or carry it into effect. To be in favor or a party, is to be disposed or inclined to support it, to justify its proceedings, and to promote its interests.
3. A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; any act of grace or good will, as distinguished from acts of justice or renumeration. To pardon the guilty is a favor; to punish them is an act of justice.
4. Lenity; mildness or mitigation of punishment.
I could not discover the lenity and favor of this sentence.
5. Leave; good will; a yielding or concession to another; pardon.
But, with your favor, I will treat it here.
6. The object of kind regard; the person or thing favored.
All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man.
His chief delight and favor.
7. 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.
8. A feature; countenance. [Not used.]
9. Advantage; convenience afforded for success. The enemy approached under favor of the night.
10. Partiality; bias. A challenge to the favor, in law, is the challenge of a juror on account of some supposed partiality, by reason of favor or malice, interest or connection.
FA'VOR, v.t.
1. To regard with kindness; to support; to aid or have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to befriend; to encourage. To favor the cause of a party, may be merely to wish success to it, or it may signify to give it aid, by counsel, or by active exertions. Sometimes men professedly favor one party and secretly favor another.
The lords favor thee not. 1 Sam 29.
Thou shalt arise, and have mercy on Zion; for the time to favor her, yea, the set time is come. Psa 102.
O happy youth! and favored of the skies.
2. To afford advantages for success; to facilitate. A weak place in the fort favored the entrance of the enemy; the darkness of the night favored his approach. A fair wind favors a voyage.
3. To resemble in features. The child favors his father.
4. To ease; to spare. A man in walking favors a lame leg.
favor appears in definitions for these words:
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Absolution Accept Acceptance Acceptation Accepting Accorder Acknowledge Acknowledgment Adjure Adonis Adopt Adoption Advantage Advocate Aggrace Another Antelope Aonian Apologize Approbation Argue Aristocrat Ask Aspect Auspicate Auspices Auspicious Auspiciously Avouch Balance Bask Bear Befriend Befriended Befriending Behalf Benediction Beneficiency Benefit Benign Benignant Benignly Bespeaking Bigotry Blessed Blessedness Blessing Book Boon Bosom Bounteousness Bountiful Bountifulness Bountihede Brevet Bribe Buy Candle Canvass Captation Cast Castaway Catoptromancy Cause Certify Challenge Charitable Charitably Charity Charlatan Clause Clemency Commandry Commend Commendation Commendatory Commended Commending Commonwealthsman Compass Compensation Compliment Conceit Concern Conciliate Conciliated Conciliating Conciliation Confer Consult Cost Countenance Countenanced Countenancer Countenancing Court Court-favor Courtesy Courtier Courtship Crawl Creature Cry Cup Curry Dance Dangle Darling Deceitful Decidable Decide Declaim Declare Dedication Dedicator Democrat Depart Dependent Desertless Disadvantage Disadvantageously Disaffected Disfavor Disfavored Disgrace Disgraced Dispense Dispenser Distinction Drops Dunning Ear Earnest Elect Embrace Emissary Emulation Encouragement Entertain Entertaining Esteem Estimation Eucharist Evangelian Even-tide Evenly Evil-favored Eye Face Faculty Fair Fairy Fallacy Fallowist Fame Famed Fautor Fautress Favor Favorable Favorableness Favorably Favored Favorer Favorite Favoritism Favorless Fawn Federalist Feeling Fellow Finely Flatter Flatterer Flattering Flatteringly Flattery Fool For Forfeit Forgive Fortunate Fortunately Foul Friend Friended Friendly Friendship Gain Gallantry Gape Generosity Get Gild Golden Good Good-conditioned Goodness Goodship Government Grace Graces Gracious Graciously Gradual Grant Grateful Gratefully Gratitude Gratuity Hand Hang Hanger-on Happy Hardness Health Hear Heathful Heaven-built High Highly Hobby Hobbyhorse Hopefully Humor Humored Humoring Hypobole Ill-favored Impart Impartial Impartiality Impartially Importunity Imputable Inclination Indifferently Indoctrinate Indulge Indulgence Indulgent Indulgently Ingrate Ingratiate Ingratiating Ingratitude Insalutary Insinuant Insinuate Insinuating Insinuation Instate Instinct Intercede Intercession Interest Interesting Interposition Intervention Intolerant Introduction Irregularity Jacobite Jealousy Justify Keep Kind Kindly Know Large Lateran Light Location Lose Love Loving-kindness Luckily Luckiness Lucky Machiavelism Make Manpleaser Mediocrity Mercy Mere Minikin Minion Moonless Munificence Myself Nepotism Neutral New News Oath Obdurate Obligation Oblige Obliged Obliging Occasion Odds Offering Opinion Opportunely Opportunity Out Overween Owling Pack Palliate Palliation Palliative Parasitic Part Partial Partiality Partially Paternal Patiently Patronage Patronal Patroness Patronize Patronized Patronizer Patronizing People Petition Petitioning Pickthank Plausible Plausibly Plead Pleaseman Pleaser Pleasure Popular Popularity Possess Praise Pray Prayer Preach Preclude Prediction Predilection Prejudice Prepossess Prepossessed Prepossessing Prepossession Present Presumption Presumptuously Pretension Prevent Principal Privilege Procure Promerit Propend Propitiable Propitiate Propitiated Propitiating Propitiation Propitious Propitiously Propitiousness Prosper Prospered Prosperous Purchase Read Reciprocal Reciprocate Recommend Recommendation Recompense Reconcile Reconciliation Reconciling Recoveror Redemption Reformist Regard Reingratiate Reingratiated Remember Repress Republican Reputation Require Reserve Respect Revolutioner Revolutionist Right Rise Run Sacrifice Salubrious Salubrity Savor Scant Scrape Secure Seek Seeming Service Shadow Show Shower Side Situation Smile Soda-water Soft Solicit Solicitous Solvency Speed State Stickle Strait Studious Subject Subreption Success Successfully Successfulness Sufferance Suffragan Suffragant Suffragator Sunshine Supparasitation Supplant Surrender Sycophantic Sycophantize Take Templar Tender Testimonial Thank Thankfully Thankfulness Thankless Thanks Thanksgiving Thick Think Thoughtful Throw Tiddle Tidy Tolerant Tory Trade-wind Tramontane Trim Triumph Ultimatum Unasked Unbenign Unconciliating Under Undistinguishing Unfavorable Unfavored Unflattering Unfostered Unfriendly Ungenial Ungracious Ungrateful Ungratefulness Unkind Unpopular Unpopularity Unpromising Unpropitious Unreconcilable Unreconciled Unrestored Unsolicited Unsuccessfully Unsuccessfulness Unsuitable Untaught Unthankfully Unthankfulness Unworthy Victim Visited Vow Warp Well-water Wholesome Will Win Winning With Word Work World Worm Zeal
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