Word Finder - favor

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A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).

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He did me a favor when he took the time to drive me home.

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Goodwill; benevolent regard.

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She enjoyed the queen's favor.

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A small gift; a party favor.

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A marriage favour is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.

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Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.

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The object of regard; person or thing favoured.

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Appearance; look; countenance; face.

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Partiality; bias.

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A letter, a written communication.

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Anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favor.

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(in the plural) Lovelocks.

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To look upon fondly; to prefer.

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To encourage, conduce to

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To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.

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Would you favor us with a poetry reading?

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To treat with care.

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Favoring your sore leg will only injure the other one.

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(including) To resemble, to look like (another person).

Do me a favor and don't listen to Dulce.

Can you do this one last favor for me?

Do me a favor and don't climb back up on your soapbox.

I'd like to ask a favor of you.

But you can do me a favor on the case.

Lydia spoke not another word, ignoring Dean in favor of her thoughts as she raced back to town.

What had started out as a favor to her friend was turning into something else.

She gave him a withering look, wondering what crack he was smoking to think he did her any favor by bringing her here instead of to a hospital.

He was asking for a favor, one Darkyn would discover within seconds of her returning to Hell.

I have a really big favor to ask of you.

While inequalities still exist around the world for women, the tide of history is flowing inexorably in favor of women's rights.

I did you the favor of running your prints years ago.

At that time a famous joke of Ermolov's was being circulated, that as a great favor he had petitioned the Emperor to make him a German.

This view was very general in the upper army circles and found support also in Petersburg and from the chancellor, Rumyantsev, who, for other reasons of state, was in favor of peace.

Deities did things differently, but he wasn't about to do what his predecessor would have and demand a favor of someone like Andre.

I broke Immortal Code to grant your favor of not killing Rhyn.

It was a cavalry general who had obtained the Emperor's special favor during this campaign, and who had formerly commanded the division in which Rostov was serving.

To favor revolutions, overthrow everything, repel force by force?...

The dust storm might work in their favor, but it would only increase their discomfort.

He.d only spent one night there last month before Sasha flung him to the side in favor of a demoness.

No appeal of yours will work in his favor.

Andrew..." she said timidly after a moment's silence, "I have a great favor to ask of you."

Quinn, consider it a personal favor... from the guy you appointed boss.

Not that I don't appreciate the favor, she said.

Normally she acquiesced in favor of a paycheck, but Lacy's demand was bizarre, even by Lacy-standards.

If this solution works, you owe me a favor of my choosing.

A favor of your choosing, so long as it pleases me to grant it.

The cat declined a lap-offer in favor of the purple rocker, Martha's chair, as if to question the whereabouts of her missing friend.

I came by your place to ask you a question—a favor.

After all, he'd abdicated all Bird Song's weekend chores in favor of his flesh-pressing tour, and Cynthia deserved a rest.

Darkyn would be doing me a favor if he took out that jackass.

Exactly. I then called in the favor she owed me from the bet I actually lost.

He didn't mistake his returned powers for a free favor.

She took me in as a favor to my father and will release me, if I ever wanted it.

A favor from an old friend who doesn't want to see you in pain.

Rhyn snorted and faced Sasha, the brother charged with governing Australia, and the first to abandon the Council in favor of serving the Dark One.

You.ve been my lover for ages, and I am doing you a favor.

Venice; but on the 7th of July the assembly declared in favor of fusion with Piedmont, and Manin, who had been elected president resigned his powers to the royal com- Danicle Mania and missioners.

This is one of the quickest and easiest ways of using negation in you favor.

But Leo rejects that director's nihilism in favor of some idea of redemption through words.

So, public policy is in favor of arranging circumstances so that letters of negotiation shall remain strictly entre nous.

Apparently the odds were in my favor that this was a freak occurrence and in all probability would never happen again.

The mainstream might have abandoned Lynch in favor of other oddballs du jour, but he still has something to say.

Unfortunately it is all too often overruled in favor of departments which push specific interests.

There was no electoral pact between the parties in favor of the Executive.

Only the best figurative painters do us this favor.

You will find that most pathogens favor lower acid (higher pH) conditions.

One can only hope that Britain is too phlegmatic for the kind of tactics they favor.

It is common for a pitcher to pitch for several innings and then be removed in favor of a relief pitcher.

In practice does the land-use planning system still embody a presumption in favor of development?