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Definition of Favor
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Favor
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. Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity. 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. Related Definitions:
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Favor Quotations
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. Thomas A. Edison If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Robert Frost The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. Thomas Jefferson The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Favor Translations
favor in Dutch is gunst, genadigheid, begunstiging favor in French is favorisons, favorisent, favorisez, complaisance favor in German is Gunst favor in Latin is ventus, beneficium, antepono, annuo, venia, gratia favor in Spanish is favor, favorecer |
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