Definition of Favored

1. Adjective. Preferred above all others and treated with partiality. "The favored child"

Exact synonyms: Best-loved, Favorite, Favourite, Pet, Preferent, Preferred
Similar to: Loved
Derivative terms: Favorite, Favourite, Preference

Definition of Favored

1. a. Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend.

Definition of Favored

1. Adjective. (American spelling) (alternative form of favoured) ¹

2. Verb. (past of favor) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Favored

1. favor [v] - See also: favor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Favored

favicons
favid
favillous
favisms
favonian
favor
favor'd
favorabilities
favorability
favorable
favorable position
favorable reception
favorableness
favorablenesses
favorably
favored (current term)
favoredness
favorer
favorers
favoress
favoring
favoringly
favorise
favorises
favoristic
favorite
favorite(a)
favorite son
favorited
favorites

Literary usage of Favored

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

1. Europe Since 1815 by Charles Downer Hazen (1910)
"The Slavs favored. Growth of radical parties. character under Taaffe. ... Thus the Slavs were favored during the long ministry of Taaffe, and the evolution ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... now resolved on the restoration largely favored the re-establishment of ultramontane of a monarchical form of governments-he effected an i institutions. ..."

3. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1914)
"Consular Treaty Rights and Comments on the' Most favored Nation' Clause. ... to the discussion of the legal force of the 'most favored nation' clause. ..."

4. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1905)
"Of an ill-favored Lady. JUST look, Manetto, at that wry-mouthed minx; How well contrived in her deformities, How beastly favored when she scowls and blinks. ..."

5. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1847)
"I shall wait the result of a determination of Congress, before I proceed further in this appointment; and I wish to be favored with then* advice as speedily ..."

6. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1898)
"... EM Should American lit. be specially favored in our libs.? 15:(ioo), loi. Symp. : Common novels in pub. libs. 19: C23, (137). ..."

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