favored

Adjective

favoured (comparative more favoured, superlative most favoured)

1. Treated or regarded with partiality.
2. (in-compounds) Having a certain appearance or physical features.
   • ill-favoured; well-favoured; hard-favoured
3. (dated) Wearing a favour.
   • a white-favoured footman

Verb

favor (third-person singular simple present favors, present participle favoring, simple past and past participle favored)

1. To look upon fondly; to prefer.
   • And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:28
2. To use more often.
   • […] alone, without having to favor his right, uninjured leg, […]2007, Bert Casper, Shadow Upon the Dream: Book 1: Barrûn, page 537
3. To encourage, conduce to
   • These [boys being groomed as prostitutes] are sold by their parents (sometimes stolen from them), about the age of 4, and educated, while they are also subjected to a special physical training, which includes massage of the gluteal regions to favor development, dilatation of the anus, and epilation...1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)
4. To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.
   • Would you favor us with a poetry reading?
5. (including Southern US and Cajun) To resemble; especially, to look like (another person).
   • I thought—it doesn't matter—you seemed to favour your ma,1896, Rudyard Kipling, The Mary Gloster
6. To treat or use (something) gently
   • I always try to favor my bad knee.

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