favour
noun
favourer
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a word derived from
favour.
Example Sentences
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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
To these reasons it was to be alleged that Charles V. was a favourer of heretics, and suspected of Lutheranism, since the publication of the imperial decrees at the diet of Augsburg, in 1554.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente
It was probably accidental, as the Earl was a favourer of the reformed religion, and not likely to meet with treachery in England.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
Lady Clonbrony, possessed by the idea that it was disadvantageous to appear as an Irishwoman or as a favourer of Ireland, began to be embarrassed by Lady St. James's repeated thanks.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Maria Edgeworth
Samuel was a grave man with a very long upper lip, which gave him a sour and discontented expression, but secretly he was a good man and a great favourer of the hill-folk.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
