Crossword-Solution: FAVOR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Favor | n. | Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will. |
| Favor | n. | The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending. |
| Favor | n. | A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration. |
| Favor | n. | Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity. |
| Favor | n. | The object of regard; person or thing favored. |
| Favor | n. | A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding. |
| Favor | n. | Appearance; look; countenance; face. |
| Favor | n. | Partiality; bias. |
| Favor | n. | A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. |
| Favor | n. | Love locks. |
| Favor | n. | To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards. |
| Favor | n. | To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy. |
| Favor | n. | To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FAVOR | anagram | AFVOR |
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Sentences with FAVOR (5)
The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came and gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaiming: “You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion.” The Charcoal-Burner And The Fuller A CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house.
There must be no halting; every one must be at his or her post; and woe betides them who hear not this morning summons to the field; for if they are not awakened by the sense of hearing, they are by the sense of feeling: no age nor sex finds any favor.
The clearing account system between Finland and the Soviet Union in the postwar period--mainly Soviet oil and gas for Finnish manufactured goods--had kept Finland isolated from world recessions; the system, however, was dismantled on 1 January 1991 in favor of hard currency trade.
And yet what pleasure canst thou find In forcing friendship on unwilling foes? Suppose a man refused to grant some boon When you importuned him, and afterwards When you had got your heart’s desire, consented, Granting a grace from which all grace had fled, Would not such favor seem an empty boon? Yet such the boon thou profferest now to me, Fair in appearance, but when tested false.
Some derived idioms are quite current; `in core', for example, means `in memory' (as opposed to `on disk'), and both {core dump} and the `core image' or `core file' produced by one are terms in favor.
Quotes with FAVOR (3)
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.
God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.
If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present paradigm to shift. We must be clear that veganism is the unequivocal baseline of anything that deserves to be called an “animal rights” movement. If “animal rights” means anything, it means that we cannot morally justify any animal exploitation; we cannot justify creating animals as human resources, however “humane” that treatment may be. We must stop thinking that people will find…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 111 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).