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  • noun Plural form of favorer.

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  • When in doubt, dash-favorers might well consider printing up pages of text, using a magnet to attach them to the refrigerator, then trying to scan them from the other side of the kitchen.

    Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The dreaded Frankenstein manuscript, part VIII: but, then, what’s your function? 2010

  • Hamilton discussed the possibility of "the secret sympathy of the friends and favorers of the condemned person, availing itself of the good-nature and weakness of others [were the pardon power to be given to more than a single individual]."

    Can Bush Pardon Himself? 2008

  • Hamilton discussed the possibility of "the secret sympathy of the friends and favorers of the condemned person, availing itself of the good-nature and weakness of others [were the pardon power to be given to more than a single individual]."

    Pardon Me, Congress? 2008

  • Then carrying aid to the Neapolitans and Nolans, he confirmed the minds of the former, who, indeed, were of their own accord faithful enough to the Romans; but in Nola he found a state of discord, the senate not being able to rule and keep in the common people, who were generally favorers of Hannibal.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Marcius, who began now to bear himself higher and to feel confidence in his past actions, conscious, too, of the admiration of the best and greatest men of Rome, openly took the lead in opposing the favorers of the people.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Greeks be left to their own laws, and that he should withdraw his garrisons, which he refused to comply with, now after these proposals, the universal belief even of the favorers and partisans of Philip, was, that the Romans came not to fight against the

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • The Athenians returned home, enraged at this usage, and vented their anger upon all those who were favorers of the Lacedaemonians; and seizing some slight occasion, they banished Cimon for ten years, which is the time prescribed to those that are banished by the ostracism.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • She and her husband, Antony of Bourbon, were both early favorers of the

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • The enactment by Congress of a national banking law has proved a valuable support of the public credit and the general legislation in relation to loans has fully answered the expectations of its favorers.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • Neurectomies have been performed and recoveries following were attributed thereto; fascial divisions in the crural region have been done with good results and this manner of treatment has its favorers.

    Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

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