favorer

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Etymology

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From Middle English favourer, favourere; equivalent to favor +‎ -er.

Noun

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favorer (plural favorers)

  1. One who favors.
    • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande [], volume I, London: [] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC, page 1612:
      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.
    • c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. [], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  [], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act I, scene 4]:
      [] by the semblance
      Of their white flags display’d, they bring us peace,
      And come to us as favourers, not as foes.
    • 1751 January 22, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, volume 3, number 89, page 161:
      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,[1]
      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.
    • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Beach of Falesá”, in Island Nights' Entertainments[2], London: Cassell, published 1893, page 66:
      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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Etymology

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Compare Italian favorire.

Verb

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favorer

  1. to favour, promote, encourage, prefer, further, support

Middle English

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Noun

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favorer

  1. Alternative form of favourere