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Definition of Party favour

1. Noun. Souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Party Favour

Literary usage of Party favour

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

1. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1919)
"He has now nothing to fear from party displeasure, because he is irremovable (except by impeachment), nothing to hope from party favour, because he is at ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... party-favour must raise him, or party- hostility must rain him. It unfortunately happens that the temptations and rewards, the pains and penalties, ..."

3. The British Commonwealth: Or, A Commentary on the Institutions and by Homersham Cox (1854)
"... from the necessity of regarding party favour, many measures not calculated to win such favour, and yet of the greatest public value, would be suggested ..."

4. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1908)
"He has now nothing to fear from party displeasure, because he is irremovable (except by impeachment), nothing to hope from party favour, because he is at ..."

5. State Trials of the United States During the Administrations of Washington by Francis Wharton (1849)
"Does he mean to suggest, gentlemen, that you have been brought here to be instigated to your decision by party favour or party hate? ..."

6. Leading Cases in the Law of Scotland: Prepared from the Original Pleadings by George Ross (1849)
"... as assistant and successor, and the incumbent having shortly afterwards died, he executed a second presentation in the same party's favour. ..."

7. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1893)
"He has now nothing to fear from party displeasure, because he is irremovable (except by impeachment), nothing to hope from party favour, because he is at ..."

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