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/fˈeɪvərɪt/ /fˈeɪvrət/ Listen

noun

Favorite n.

A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority. "Committing to a wicked favorite All public cares."

pl. Short curls dangling over the temples; fashionable in the reign of Charles II. (Obs.)

(Sporting) The competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the competitor standing highest in the betting.

adjective

Favorite adj. Regarded with particular affection, esteem, or preference; as, a favorite walk; a favorite child. "His favorite argument."

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... o' the dirty work himself—no more prisons for him. He just goes around like a Sunday-school director at Christmas time, while his enemies turn to an' poison an' stab an' mutilate each other in a way to turn a butcher pale; but his favorite plan is to make 'em go insane an' have their hair turn white in a single night. That got to be his ...

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— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy

... taken off her hat before she ran out to see them all. But Jenny was her especial favorite, because grandpa had brought her up from a calf and she was so gentle that she had let Jean take many a ride on her back. Jean had just given her a good hug when grandpa came by leading Prince to pasture. "Please put me on her," ...

— Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 34, August 23, 1914 • Various

... peace. This being secured, we are led to consent to terms of ransom, to which, otherwise, our government never would have consented; that is to say, to the terms stated by Captain O'Bryan in the following passage of the same letter. 'By giving the minister of the marine (the present Dey's favorite) the sum of one thousand sequins, I would stake my life that we would be ransomed for thirteen thousand sequins, and all expenses included.' Extravagant as this sum is, we will, under the security of peace in ...

— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

... Leavenworth with the army for Utah in 1857, one of the officers rode a small mule, whose kind and gentle disposition soon caused him to become a favorite among the soldiers, and they named him "Billy." As this officer and myself were often thrown together upon the march, the mule, in the course of a few days, evinced a growing attachment for a mare that I rode. The sentiment was not, however, reciprocated on her part, and she intimated as much by ...

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