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favour'd

favour'd is the obsolete form of favoured.

favour'd is the simple past and past participle of favour.

Meaning of favoured

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

Meaning of favour

Verb

favour (third-person singular simple present favours, present participle favouring, simple past and past participle favoured)

  1. British standard spelling of favor.
    • And the Angel came in vnto her, and said, Haile thou that art highly fauoured, the Lord is with thee: Blessed art thou among women.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:2

See all 2 meanings of favour

Forms of favour'd

comparativemore favour'd
superlativemost favour'd

Words formed from favour'd

Questions about favour'd

What is favour'd the obsolete form of?
Favour'd is the obsolete form of favoured.

Words near favour'd in the dictionary

  1. favosite
  2. favositid
  3. favositids
  4. favositoid
  5. favour
  6. favour'd
  7. favourabilities
  8. favourability
  9. favourable
  10. favourableness
  11. favourables

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: favour'd (page history and authors); favoured (page history and authors); favour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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