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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Favorable \Fa"vor*a*ble\, a. [Written also {favourable}.] [F. favorable, L. favorabilis favored, popular, pleasing, fr favor. See {Favor}, n.] 1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. --Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. --Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient. A place very favorable for the making levies of men. --Clarendon. The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. --Sir W. Temple. 3. Beautiful; well-favored. [Obs.] --Spenser. -- {Fa"vora*ble*ness}, n. -- {Fa"vor*a*bly}, sdv. The faborableness of the present times to all extertions in the cause of liberty. --Burke. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: favorably adv : showing approval; "he reviewed the play favorably" [syn: {favourably}] [ant: {unfavorably}]
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