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- adjective Obsolete form of
favoured . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
favour .
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Examples
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I was last night favour'd with your 'Address to Time', [1] and am compell'd to congratulate you with all my whole heart as a man capable of giving the world pleasure hereafter, when the 'Old Gentleman 'you address shall have plump'd out the ear of corn that seems now so full of milk.
Letter 205 2009
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The hard favour'd authority that the workers have presumably seen in the faces of the landed gentry is absent here.
'[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillies Poems (1790) 2008
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You may know that I have not yet favour'd the Audience here at Professor Althouse's Theatre of Topicks as I call it with a proper account of my unfortunate Death, which gave Occasion to my first and only ectoplasmick Hauntings.
When lawyers shop... Ann Althouse 2009
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Devotions in the Temple of Jupiter, where many had been favour'd with satisfactory Answers.
Exilius 2008
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Galesia; a Person not worthy such Esteem, only favour'd by the
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As a Ghost, dead these 250 years and more, you may imagine the many Changes of Taste & Fashion that Fate has favour'd me to observe.
"The man of the moment is an urchin, a wraith or an underfed runt." Ann Althouse 2008
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Expecting no Compensation, save the kind Words with which You have already graciously favour'd Me
"Lon Ponschock: Althouse should be willing to debate." Ann Althouse 2008
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But if the favour'd one prove false, oh! who can then be true?
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Woe! that a land so favour'd once should witness such disgrace!
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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When he was favour'd with his Prince's Ear, and might have ask'd the most profitable and important Posts in the Government, and been indemnified if guilty of
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