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