Definition of Favoritisms

1. Noun. (plural of favoritism) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Favoritisms

1. favoritism [n] - See also: favoritism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Favoritisms

favorers
favoress
favoring
favoringly
favorise
favorises
favoristic
favorite
favorite(a)
favorite son
favorited
favorites
favoritest
favoriting
favoritism
favoritisms (current term)
favorize
favorous
favors
favose
favosite
favosites
favour
favour'd
favourabilities
favourability
favourable
favourable position
favourable reception
favourableness

Literary usage of Favoritisms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851)
"Mr. Hillhouse has known favoritisms and anti-favoritisms enough in both houses, I should think, to be convinced that favoritism would be increased by his ..."

2. The Social Crisis: The Duty of Government by Dempster Ostrander (1898)
"The favoritisms and class distinctions which characterized the governments and ... Whims and favoritisms were excluded. Imposition and grace, in a ..."

3. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"Novelists, however, often debase fiction by obtruding their personal vanities, favoritisms, fanaticisms, and antipathies. We had, the other day, a novel, ..."

4. Industrial Democracy by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1902)
"It would admit of no partial exceptions or favoritisms. Il would be binding on all. It would be, we think, desired by all who hope to be benefited by the ..."

5. The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft, William Archibald Dunning (1908)
"While in power he had provoked bitter criticism on the part of many important men in the Confederacy by what was called his self- conceit, his favoritisms, ..."

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