favoured

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1. favoured - Adjective

2. favoured - Verb

Meaning

Treated or regarded with partiality.

(in combination) Having a certain appearance or physical features.
ill-favoured; well-favoured; hard-favoured

(dated) Wearing a favour.
a white-favoured footman

favoured

simple past and past participle of favour

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Also important to the Indigenous Taiwanese people’s cuisine are the sweet potato and taro, favoured for their perennial nature and low maintenance. Source: Internet

After this, Justinian also felt entitled to settle disputes in papal elections, as he did when he favoured Vigilius and had his rival Silverius deported. Source: Internet

Africa South Africa seeAlso Apartheid The Apartheid government, as a matter of state policy, favoured white-owned, especially Afrikaner -owned companies. Source: Internet

After a slow decline, the city was favoured by several imperial initiatives under Hadrian (117 - 138). Source: Internet

After the end of World War II the northern quarters of Syracuse experienced a heavy, often chaotic, expansion, favoured by the quick process of industrialization. Source: Internet

Along with secular matters, readers also favoured an alphabetical ordering scheme over cumbersome works arranged along thematic lines. Source: Internet

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