'Favoring' definitions:
Definition of 'Favoring'
From: GCIDE
- Favor \Fa"vor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Favored (f[=a]"v[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Favoring.] [Written also favour.] [Cf. OF. favorer, favorir. See Favor, n.]
- 1. To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards. [1913 Webster]
- O happy youth! and favored of the skies. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- He that favoreth Joab, . . . let him go after Joab. --2 Sam. xx. 11. [1913 Webster]
- [The painter] has favored her squint admirably. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father. [1913 Webster]
- The porter owned that the gentleman favored his master. --Spectator. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Favoring'
From: GCIDE
- Favoring \Fa"vor*ing\, a. That favors. -- {Fa"vor*ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'favoring'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advantageous,
- advocating,
- agential,
- agentival,
- agentive,
- alike,
- aped,
- approving,
- assisting,
- auspicious,
- backing,
- beneficial,
- benign,
- benignant,
- better,
- brave,
- bright,
- conducive,
- consimilar,
- copied,
- counterfeit,
- employable,
- ersatz,
- facilitating,
- fair,
- fake,
- favorable,
- favored,
- following,
- fortunate,
- forwarding,
- full of promise,
- golden,
- good,
- handy,
- happy,
- helpful,
- homogeneous,
- identical,
- imitated,
- imitation,
- instrumental,
- intermediary,
- like,
- lucky,
- mediating,
- mediatorial,
- mimicked,
- ministerial,
- ministering,
- mock,
- more desirable,
- nearly reproduced,
- not unlike,
- of choice,
- of good omen,
- of happy portent,
- of promise,
- phony,
- preferable,
- preferential,
- preferred,
- preferring,
- pro,
- promising,
- promoting,
- propitious,
- prosperous,
- resembling,
- simulated,
- smacking of,
- something like,
- subservient,
- suggestive of,
- supporting,
- synthetic,
- to be preferred,
- toward,
- uniform with,
- use,
- useful,
- well-disposed,
- well-inclined
Words containing 'Favoring'
- Favor,
- Favorable,
- Favorableness,
- Favorably,
- Favored,
- Favoredly,
- Favorer,
- Favoringly,
- In favor of,
- In favor with,
- favor with,
- in favor,
- out of favor,
- By one's favor,
- Challenge for favor,
- Challenge to the favor,
- Love favor,
- Marriage favors,
- To curry favor,
- Wedding favor,
- With one's favor,
- court favor,
- curry favor,
- favorable position,
- favorable reception,
- party favor,
- Evil-favored,
- Hard-favored,
- Ill-favored,
- Ill-favoredly,
- To find favor in the eyes of,
- Well-favored,
- array favor polls,
- most-favored-nation,
- Most-favored-nation clause