Definition of Favors

1. Noun. (plural of ''favor'') ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of ''favor'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Favors

1. favor [v] - See also: favor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Favors

favoringly
favorise
favorises
favoristic
favorite
favorite(a)
favorite son
favorited
favorites
favoritest
favoriting
favoritism
favoritisms
favorize
favorous
favors (current term)
favose
favosite
favosites
favour
favour'd
favourabilities
favourability
favourable
favourable position
favourable reception
favourableness
favourablest
favourably
favoured

Literary usage of Favors

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Governments of France, Italy, and Germany by Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1914)
"... they must grant favors. favors to the individual deputies in order to secure their votes. This is not a new feature in French politics. ..."

2. The Trust Problem by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, Walter Ernest Clark (1917)
"CHAPTER IV favors TO INDUSTRIAL COMBINATIONS MANY writers and thinkers on the subject of industrial combinations are of the opinion that they are usually ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"The law so favors • legitimacy that if, at any time, the putative father unequivocably recognized the child as his, such child is legitimate and the ..."

4. Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimería Alta: A Contemporary Account of the by Eusebio Francisco Kino (1919)
"... favors Having written, by order of our father general, Thyrso Gonzales, the account of the celestial favors, which I have set forth in the First Part, ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"certainly favors the inclusion of the Weal- den rocks in the Jurassic series."* AGE OF THE LARAMIE. The problem before us to-day has a strong family ..."

6. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1899)
"MAYOR OF CAMBRIDGE favors Points out the advantages that would come to that City if the Institute should locate there—A solution of the river-front problem ..."

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