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favourer

favourer is the alternative form of favorer.

Meaning of favorer

Noun

favorer (plural favorers)

  1. One who favors.
    • Of personage hee was tall and mightie […], in wit & memorie verie perfect: of suche maiestie tempered with humanitie, as best became so noble & high an estate: a great fauorer of learning, as he that was not ignorant of good letters himselfe, and for his greate magnificence and liberalitie, his...1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC, page 1612

Forms of favourer

pluralfavourers

Origin of favourer

From favour + -er.

Questions about favourer

What is favourer the alternative form of?
Favourer is the alternative form of favorer.

Words near favourer in the dictionary

  1. favourablest
  2. favourably
  3. favoured
  4. favouredly
  5. favouredness
  6. favourer
  7. favourers
  8. favourest
  9. favoureth
  10. favouring
  11. favouringly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: favourer (page history and authors); favorer (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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