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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
favour .
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Examples
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Virgin favoureth you; and I hope of the Messiah that he forget not what deed I have done.
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But to continue: we are well assured that Allah favoureth whoso are thankful to Him and mindful of His faith; and thou, O auspicious King, art far-famed for these illustrious virtues and for justice and equitable dealing between subject and subject and in that which is acceptable to
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Peradventure, this King favoureth me not with these immoderate favours save for some ill purpose and, therefore, there is no help but that I crave leave of him to depart his realm.
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And indeed he that is rebellious and seeketh other than the dole which God hath decreed unto him and for him, favoureth the wild Ass and the
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And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.
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And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.
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King Darius favoureth the building and contributeth to it.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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King Darius favoureth the building and contributeth to it.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 15: 1 Esdras The Challoner Revision
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Consumer of her Masters Goods, and no better than a Thief; and besides, such Behaviour favoureth much of Levity.
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And herein I make no show of learning, being but an undoctrined farmer and not skilled in the tricks of style, as the word is in these parts, but trusting simply to strength and honesty (whereof, God knows, there is but little beyond the limits of our farm), and to that breezy carriage of the pen which favoureth a plain man treading sturdily the winding paths and rough places of his native tongue.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891 Various
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