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3 definitions found 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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