Meaning of Favorer | Babel Free

Definitions

One who favors.

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Examples

“Of personage hee was tall and mightie […], in wit & memorie verie perfect: of suche maiestie tempered with humanitie, as best became so noble & high an estate: a great fauorer of learning, as he that was not ignorant of good letters himselfe, and for his greate magnificence and liberalitie, his renoune was spread⟳ through the whole world.”

“[…] by the semblance Of their white flags display’d, they bring⟳ us peace, And come⟳ to us as favourers, not as foes.”

“Locke, whom there is no reason⟳ to suspect⟳ of being a favourer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced, that whoever hopes to employ⟳ any part of his time with efficacy and vigour, must allow⟳ some of it to pass⟳ in trifles.”

“1845, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Zanoni, London: Chapman & Hall, 1853, Dedicatory Epistle, First prefixed to the Edition of 1845, p. vi, I love⟳ it not the less because it has been little understood, and superficially judged by the common herd. It was not meant for them. I love⟳ it not the more, because it has found enthusiastic favourers amongst the Few.”

“I’m no missionary, nor missionary lover; I’m no Kanaka, nor favourer of Kanakas—I’m just a trader; I’m just a common, low-down, God-damned white man and British subject, the sort⟳ you would like⟳ to wipe your boots on.”

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