favor
Speech parts
1. favor - Noun
2. favor - Verb
3. Favor - Proper noun
Meaning
Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending.
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.
The object of regard; person or thing favored.
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.
Appearance; look; countenance; face.
Partiality; bias.
A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.
Love locks.
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.
To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.
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the outcome was in his favor
that style is in favor this season
The local team was favored
he favors his second daughter
“Absolutely, I mean, to the donors will be blunt about their expectation for access and their rationale for spending the money, being to influence outcomes, policy outcomes in favor of their own narrow agenda.
Abusing the "orphan" of Protagoras Since Protagoras is dead, Socrates puts himself in the sophist's shoes and tries to do him the favor of defending his idea (166a-168c).