Favored
[feɪvəd] or ['fevɚd]
Definition
(adj.) preferred above all others and treated with partiality; 'the favored child' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Favor
(a.) Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend.
(a.) Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
Editor: Lucius
Examples
- A more hard-favored set, perhaps, could not be imagined. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- My appearance, with my arm bandaged and my coat loose over my shoulders, favored my object. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- You'd be everybody's master, if you durst, retorted Orlick, with an ill-favored grin. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I was Esau, and Andros Jacob, the favored one. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You was favored, and he was bullied and beat. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He had been taken in so by niggers whom he had favored; but still he was astonished to consider how good-natured he yet remained! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- No; Justinian never hinted at such a thing; and I always thought that he favored Caliphronas as the heir to his island throne. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He studied electricity night and day, and he gave equal time to the musical telegraph that his friends favored and to the invention that now claimed his real interest. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Well, Mr. Trumbull, you're highly favored, said Mrs. Waule. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- During that period,--being much trusted and favored by his employer,--he had free liberty to come and go at discretion. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She favored my father, Austin, and the brothers had a quarrel which ended in blows. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The clouded moon still favored us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- According to one scientific hypothesis, Species originated by means of natural selection, or, through the preservation of favored races in the struggle for lif e. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Today the pearl is the favored gem of those who are surfeited with valuable jewels. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- No doubt I should have been miserable whomsoever she had favored; but a worthier object would have caused me a different kind and degree of distress. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The result of the offensive effort of the enemy the week before, when he assaulted Fort Stedman, particularly favored this. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I assured him of my keeping the secret, and begged to be favored with further particulars. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Anna favored this, and he started to figure out how long the work would take. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Editor: Lucius