FAVOR
\fˈe͡ɪvə], \fˈeɪvə], \f_ˈeɪ_v_ə]\
Definitions of FAVOR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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treat gently or carefully
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souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party
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a feeling of favorable regard
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consider as the favorite; "The local team was favored"
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promote over another; "he favors his second daughter"
By Princeton University
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treat gently or carefully
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souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party
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a feeling of favorable regard
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consider as the favorite; "The local team was favored"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
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The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending.
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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.
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Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
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The object of regard; person or thing favored.
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A gift or represent; 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.
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Appearance; look; countenance; face.
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Partiality; bias.
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Love locks.
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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.
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To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
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A letter or epistle; - so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.
By Oddity Software
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Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
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The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending.
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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.
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Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
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The object of regard; person or thing favored.
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A gift or represent; 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.
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Appearance; look; countenance; face.
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Partiality; bias.
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Love locks.
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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.
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To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
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A letter or epistle; - so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.
By Noah Webster.
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Kindness; support; patronage; good will; partiality; a love token.
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To regard with good will; befriend; resemble in features; spare. Also, favour.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A regarding kindly; countenance; good-will; a kind deed; an act of grace or lenity; a knot of white ribbons worn at a wedding.
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To regard with good will; to be on the side of; to treat indulgently; to afford advantage to.
By Daniel Lyons
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- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.