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Favored   /fˈeɪvərd/   Listen
verb
Favor  v. t.  (past & past part. favored; pres. part. favoring)  
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. "O happy youth! and favored of the skies." "He that favoreth Joab,... let him go after Joab." "(The painter) has favored her squint admirably."
2.
To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
3.
To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father. "The porter owned that the gentleman favored his master."


adjective
Favored  adj.  
1.
Countenanced; aided; regarded with kindness; as, a favored friend.
2.
Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.





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"Favored" Quotes from Famous Books



... have no more occasion to speak of poor Father Cato, I will here conclude in a few words his melancholy history. His brother monks, jealous, or rather exasperated to discover in him a merit and elegance of manners which favored nothing of monastic stupidity, conceived the most violent hatred to him, because he was not as despicable as themselves; the chiefs, therefore, combined against this worthy man, and set on the envious rabble of monks, who otherwise would not have dared to hazard ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau
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... show their usefulness to their families and to the community. Negro mechanics were then getting as much skilled labor as they could do. It was not uncommon for white artisans to solicit employment of colored men because they had the reputation of being better paymasters than master workmen of the favored race. White mechanics not only worked with the blacks but often associated with them, patronized the same barber shop, and went to the ...
— A Century of Negro Migration • Carter G. Woodson
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... was, perhaps, the prettiest girl in all that region. Oliver Hampden had always been in love with her. However, Fortune, ever capricious, favored Wilmer Drayton, who entered the lists when it looked as if Miss Lucy were almost certain to marry her old lover. It appeared that Mr. Drayton's indifference had counted for more than the other's devotion. He carried off the prize with ...
— The Christmas Peace - 1908 • Thomas Nelson Page
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... lift their lofty peaks high in the air like mighty strongholds, and, shutting out the desert winds, catch the clouds as they sail in from the ocean, making them pay heavy tribute in fertilizing rain to the favored land below. ...
— History of California • Helen Elliott Bandini
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... The ruffian favored him with an appraising leer. "Don't have to say so," he drawled, "if you ain't, what have you-alls got them dinky little canoes for, an' if you were after 'gators you'd be packing big rifles 'stead of them fancy guns. You ain't got no call to deny ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
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