Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which favors; one who assists or promotes the success or prosperity of another.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity.

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  • noun One who favors.

Etymologies

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favor +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Much Love recommended Jelly to us, from photos and descriptions alone terrier-favorer I was partial to Wheatie, and Jifo, being the Corgi/Doxie lover, wanted Banana.

    Tell Me Thursday: Mom Stop It 2009

  • Much Love recommended Jelly to us, from photos and descriptions alone terrier-favorer I was partial to Wheatie, and Jifo, being the Corgi/Doxie lover, wanted Banana.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Ionicizations monument bolstered bivouac! saintly favorer?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Newspaper endorsements.– 2004

  • Ctesias, as is evident, being excessively vain-glorious, and no less a favorer of the Lacedaemonians and Clearchus, never fails to assume to himself some province in his narrative, taking opportunity, in these situations, to introduce abundant high praise of Clearchus and Sparta.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • For Antistius was murdered in the senate, because he was suspected to be a favorer of Sylla for

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Upon which, as if the god had been a deserting soldier, they seized him, so to say, in the act, tied down the statue with ropes, and nailed it to the pedestal, reproaching him, that he was a favorer of Alexander.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Aristaenus, a Megalopolitan of great credit among the Achaeans, but always a favorer of the Romans, saying one day in the senate, that the Romans should not be opposed, or displeased in any way,

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • He was, indeed, a favorer of the Lacedaemonians even from his youth, and he gave the names of Lacedaemonius and Eleus to two sons, twins, whom he had, as Stesimbrotus says, by a woman of

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Chandra Gokhale, Inspector-General of the Records and favorer of very young girls, chose that moment to groan.

    Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999

  • Socrates, a favorer of those heretics; but we do not know the reasons and authority upon which he proceeded.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

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