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/fˈeɪvərəbəl/ /fˈeɪvrəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Favorable adj. (Written also favourable)

Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. "Lend favorable ears to our request." "Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land."

Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient. "A place very favorable for the making levies of men." "The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life."

Beautiful; well-favored. (Obs.) "The favorableness of the present times to all exertions in the cause of liberty."

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Etymology of 'Favorable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Favorable" Quotes from Famous Books

... inference per enumerationem simplicem, in scholastic phrase; that is, counting only their favorable cases. This is the old trick illustrated in Lord Bacon's story of the gifts of the shipwrecked people, hung up in the temple.—Behold! they vowed these gifts to the altar, and the gods saved them. Ay, said a doubting bystander, but how many made vows of gifts and were shipwrecked ...

— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... The system thus established contained the seed of evil as well as of good. African slave labor, already introduced in Virginia, where the climate was some excuse for its adoption, worked injury to the New Netherland, where all the conditions were favorable to white labor, and tended to create a servile class. The negroes, both bond and free, were for many years a most obnoxious element in the colony, viewed with apprehension and suspicion even down to the beginning of the present century by the general body of white citizens, and often subjected to ...

— The Land We Live In - The Story of Our Country • Henry Mann

... [A. H. Everett] had probably studied German while he was associated with John Quincy Adams in St. Petersburg, where German influence was strong and the study of the language and literature could be pursued under the most favorable conditions. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, New York, Vol. X (N. S.) 1842—p. 461, states that he studied at St. Petersburg, among other things, ...

— Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 • Edward Ziegler Davis

... made conquests in India, fearful lest his ancient honors should be forgotten, bitterly opposed the scheme of the Portuguese; Venus, however, was favorable to them, and Mars interceded, counselling Jove not to heed Bacchus, but to permit the Lusitanians to reach India's ...

— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb

... No favorable opportunity occurred for taking Agrippina out upon the water until the time arrived for her return to Antium. During the time of her stay at Baiae, Nero devoted himself to her with the most assiduous attention. He prepared magnificent banquets for her, and entertained her with a great variety ...

— Nero - Makers of History Series • Jacob Abbott

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