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Favored \Fa"vored\ (f[=a]"v[~e]rd), a.
1. Countenanced; aided; regarded with kindness; as, a favored
friend.
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2. Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as,
well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
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Favor \Fa"vor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Favored} (f[=a]"v[~e]rd);
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 treat with consideration or tenderness;
to show partiality or unfair bias towards.
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O happy youth! and favored of the skies. --Pope.
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He that favoreth Joab, . . . let him go after Joab.
--2 Sam. xx.
11.
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[The painter] has favored her squint admirably.
--Swift.
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2. To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a
weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
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3. To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of;
as, the child favors his father.
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The porter owned that the gentleman favored his
master. --Spectator.
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