favor
noun
something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act.
favorer
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a word derived from
favor.
Example Sentences
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No favorer of races or creeds, Mr. Hayden gave $25 to the Harlem Eye and Ear Hospital.
From Time Magazine Archive
That I am a favorer of freedom is manifest from this law of which ye make mention.
From The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) by Various
Even thou, holy prelate, wilt rejoice that the church is like to have acquisitions so glorious—albeit no favorer of the Genoese of old.
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper
"Prescot another favorer of the Petitioners lost a horse and his loading in Sudbury river, and a week after his wife and children being upon another horse were hardly saved from drowning."
From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 by Various
Instead they nominated James K. Polk of Tennessee, an outspoken favorer of the admission of Texas.
From A Short History of the United States by Edward Channing
