Favor
['feɪvə] or ['fevɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an act of gracious kindness.
(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.
(verb.) consider as the favorite; 'The local team was favored'.
(verb.) treat gently or carefully.
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Definition
(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.
(n.) The object of regard; person or thing favored.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
(n.) To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Countenance, befriend, encourage, patronize.[2]. Support, aid, help, assist.[3]. Humor, indulge, spare.
n. [1]. Kindness, friendliness, countenance, grace, kind regard, good will, propitious aspect.[2]. Benefit, act of grace, good deed, kind act.[3]. Patronage, championship, support, befriending, defence, vindication.[4]. Letter, epistle, communication.[5]. Gift, present, token of good will.[6]. (Law.) Bias, partiality, prejudice.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Permission, grace, concession, predilection, gift, civility, benefit, kindness,good_will, regard, condescension, preference, boon, countenance, patronage
ANT:Refusal, denial, prohibition, disfavor, withdrawal, withholding, frown,disapproval, injury, discountenance
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you ask favors of anyone, denotes that you will enjoy abundance, and that you will not especially need anything. To grant favors, means a loss.
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Examples
- Thou art with us now and in favor of this of the bridge? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You have nevare played--will you do me a littl' favor? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Well, I am glad at least that she makes an exception in favor of my son, said the old lady. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In that case one of the main points in favor of the accused disappears. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Allow me to present the club key, and with many thanks for your favor, take my seat. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- His suggestions were finally approved, although they did not immediately find favor in Washington. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Therefore go for a favor. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The commercial motorcycle is said to be gaining widespread favor, and therein lies its greatest future. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- So far as my experience with General Halleck went it was very much easier for him to refuse a favor than to grant one. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Especially to gentlemen, added May, with a look which enlightened Amy as to one cause of her sudden fall from favor. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- His sensitiveness to approbation, his hope of winning favor by an agreeable act, are made use of to induce action in another direction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A court in equity should not look with favor on such a defence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And all this was to have come without study or other inconvenience, purely by the favor of providence in the shape of an old gentleman's caprice. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I do not believe that the majority of the Northern people at that time were in favor of negro suffrage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Where I came from if a man dares to say a word in favor of the Union we hang him to a limb of the first tree we come to. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Colonel had his office full of people, mostly from the neighboring States of Missouri and Kentucky, making complaints or asking favors. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But he favors Putz. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The other lion was the fact that they were poor and Laurie rich, for this made them shy of accepting favors which they could not return. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The solitary woman felt an interest in the ambitious girl, and kindly conferred many favors of this sort both on Jo and the Professor. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It is an accretion of power around a center of influence, cemented by patronage, graft, favors, friendship, loyalties, habits,--a human grouping, a natural pyramid. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If ever I should have any little favors to ask of any man, I will ask him at the time. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He favors a true aristocracy as the best means of produ cing a race of supermen. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If she favors you, love her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In the war of extermination that was ever before the great naturalist's eye in South America, what is it that favors a species' survival or determine s its extinction? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I'm as proud as Lucifer, but such favors from such people don't burden me, and I accepted gratefully. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- If he never said a cutting word about Mr. Casaubon again and left off receiving favors from him, it would clearly be permissible to hate him the more. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If you were to renounce this patronage and these favors, I suppose you would do so with some faint hope of one day repaying what you have already had. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I don't like favors, they oppress and make me feel like a slave. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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