2. Verb. (third-person singular of favour) ¹
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Definition of Favours
1. favour [v] - See also: favour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Favours
Literary usage of Favours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Around the world in eighty days, tr. by G.M. Towle by Jules Verne (1874)
"... FORTUNE favours THE BRAVE. THE project was a bold one, full of difficulty,
perhaps impracticable. Mr. Fogg was going to risk life, or at least liberty, ..."
2. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by John Atkinson Hobson (1902)
"Machinery favours Employment of Women. § 3. Wages of Women lower than of Men.
§ 4. ... Modern manufacture with machinery favours the employment of women as ..."
3. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"The crown had already granted them ma7>y favours and indulgences for promoting
... What further favours they expected, may he learned from a memorial and ..."
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