Hypertext Webster Gateway: "favoring"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Favoring \Fa"vor*ing\, a.
That favors. -- {Fa"vor*ing*ly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Favor \Fa"vor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Favored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Favoring}.] [Written also favour.] [Cf. OF. favorer,
favorir. See {Favor}, n.]
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 countenance; to treat with consideration
or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.

O happy youth! and favored of the skies. --Pope.

He that favoreth Joab, . . . let him go after Joab.
--2 Sam. xx.
11.

[The painter] has favored her squint admirably.
--Swift.

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. --Spectator.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

favoring
adj : supporting a policy or attitude etc; "an affirmative
argument" [syn: {affirmative}]


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