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- adjective Obsolete form of
favoured . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
favor .
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Examples
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The press of another's Time & Business thus prevents Me from thanking individually those among You who have so graciously favor'd me with your Compliments.
"A 'Virtuous vanilla' lip balm and a 'Get Tight with Christ' hand and body cream, featuring a picture of Christ flanked by two adoring women." Ann Althouse 2008
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The press of another's Time & Business thus prevents Me from thanking individually those among You who have so graciously favor'd me with your Compliments.
Sir Archy alert. Ann Althouse 2008
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I have shipped a scan .jpg off to the (volunteer) guy who manages my (free) SFWA web page, and we shall see how many weeks pass before I can point you few, you favor'd few, you band of siblings, off to see it.
Glub jhetley 2005
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(Though strong their cause she favor'd) the sad fall,
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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With horns were crown'd: and Phœbus 'favor'd Rhodes;
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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I have been remarkably favor'd the last year as to my health & we are blest likewise with a fine little Daughter between 4 & 5 months old, very healthy, which we have named
Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 Anna Green Winslow 1881
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She favor'd him more than the rest -- perhaps, as in a hundred similar instances, for his being so often at fault, and so often blamed.
Pieces in Early Youth, 1834-'42 ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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And when I have observ'd the great anxiety and affliction which many parents have with undutiful children who are favor'd with health, especially their sons, I could perceive very few whose troubles and exercises, on that account, did not far exceed ours.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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She favor'd him more than the rest -- perhaps, as in a hundred similar instances, for his being so often at fault, and so often blamed.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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And when I have observ'd the great anxiety and affliction which many parents have with undutiful children who are favor'd with health, especially their sons, I could perceive very few whose troubles and exercises, on that account, did not far exceed ours.
November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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