favouring
favouring is the present participle and gerund of favour.
favouring is the alternative form of favoring.
Meaning of favour
Verb
favour (third-person singular simple present favours, present participle favouring, simple past and past participle favoured)
- 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
Meaning of favoring
Noun
favoring (plural favorings)
- The act or state by which one favors something; preference.
- Unlike in Smith's case, however, here the relevant intuition does not concern a particular example, but moral favorings in general. Intuitively, it is said, what we morally ought to do simply does not depend on what we want to do.2018, Stefan Fischer, The Origin of Oughtness: A Case for Metaethical Conativism, page 69
Forms of favouring
| plural | favourings |
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Words formed from favouring
Questions about favouring
- What is favouring the present participle and gerund of?
- Favouring is the present participle and gerund of favour.
Words near favouring in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: favouring (page history and authors); favour (page history and authors); favoring (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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