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Definition of Favourers
1. favourer [n] - See also: favourer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Favourers
Literary usage of Favourers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... faithfully gathered by way of Historical Narration out of the Works and Writings
of the principal favourers of that Platforme, 4to, London, 1593. ..."
2. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... to absent himself from his parliament were enemies to the peace of the kingdom,
and justly to be suspected to be favourers of the rebellion in Ireland. ..."
3. A History of Rome from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire by Henry George Liddell (1855)
"... favourers of Italians : impeachment of Scaurus. § 1. THE power of the Nobility
had been shaken to its centre by the Gracchi. It was for a time restored ..."
4. The Works of William Robertson: To which is Prefixed an Account of His Life by William Robertson (1851)
"... by the catholics and by the ^-~J_^ favourers of the new doctrines. During that
long 153 ' interval of tranquillity, which the absence of the em- peror, ..."
5. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... to absent himself from his parliament were enemies to the peace of the kingdom,
and justly to be suspected to be favourers of the rebellion in Ireland. ..."
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