favors

[Fa·vor]

A favor is an act of kindness, like doing your friend a favor by letting her borrow your calculator to take the big math test.

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Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.

Noun
an act of gracious kindness

Noun
souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party

Noun
an advantage to the benefit of someone or something; "the outcome was in his favor"

Noun
an inclination to approve; "that style is in favor this season"

Noun
a feeling of favorable regard

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Verb
consider as the favorite; "The local team was favored"

Verb
promote over another; "he favors his second daughter"

Verb
bestow a privilege upon

Verb
treat gently or carefully

n.
Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.

n.
The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending.

n.
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.

n.
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.

n.
Partiality; bias.

n.
A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.

n.
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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To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.

Favor

Fa"vor , n. [Written also favour.] [OF. favor, F. faveur, L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bh'bevaya to further, foster, causative of bh to become, be. Cf. Be. In the phrase to curry favor, favor is prob. for favel a horse. See 2d Favel.] 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 fabor 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 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.

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. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. Love locks. [Obs.] Wright. Challenge to the favor ∨ 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 [see the etymology of Favor, above], to seek to gain favor by flattery, caresses, kindness, or officious civilities. -- With one's favor, ∨ By one's favor, with leave; by kind permission.

But, with your favor, I will treat it here.

Syn. -- Kindness; countenance; patronage; support; lenity; grace; gift; present; benefit.

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.

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.

Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.

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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Usage Examples

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

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Other Usage Examples

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.