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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete patron, protector
  2. n. admirer, one who favours
  3. n. supporter, adherent, partisan

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support; an abettor.

Examples

  • “You are become, I understand, a solicitor of suits — a promoter — an undertaker — a fautor of court suitors of merit and quality, who chance to be pennyless.”

    The Fortunes of Nigel

  • “Raymund of Pennafort defined the terms haereticus, receptor, fautor, defensor, etc., and outlined the penalties to be inflicted.”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

  • “Erasmus, fautor-in-chief of the Reformation, until he got frightened and basely deserted it?”

    Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays

  • “Was not the arch-humanist, Erasmus, fautor-in-chief of the Reformation, until he got frightened and basely deserted it?”

    Lectures and Essays

  • “You are become, I understand, a solicitor of suits -- a promoter -- an undertaker -- a fautor of court suitors of merit and quality, who chance to be pennyless.”

    The Fortunes of Nigel

  • “Hard seemed these terms to Lusca, and hard beyond measure to the lady, but Love, that great fautor of enterprise, and master of stratagem, gave her resolution to address herself to their performance: wherefore through the chambermaid she sent him word that what he required of her she would do, and that without either reservation or delay; and therewithal she told him, that, as he deemed Nicostratus so wise, she would contrive that they should enjoy one another in”

    The Decameron, Volume II

  • “a handsome tribute, where he describes him as "a great fautor of ingenious and good men, for meer merit's sake.”

    The Lucasta Poems

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