favour
noun
favourer
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a word derived from
favour.
Example Sentences
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Which blew colour representeth the Aire amongst the elements, that of all the rest is the greatest favourer of life, as the only nurse and maintainer of spirits in any living creature.
From Birds and Man by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
His landlord was no favourer of the Covenant; and, though Thomas wished well to the cause, he did not see the necessity for making his laird, the Lord of Lauderdale, his enemy for its sake.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various
He was no favourer of his friends in his judgments, for he valued more godly justice than the distinctions of rank.
From Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns by James Gray
His brother John, we may here observe, was, on the contrary, a great favourer of the order, to whom he gave Lundy Island, at the mouth of the Bristol Channel.
From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley
