prefer
verb (used with object)
to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than.
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Tiberius was grimly satisfied; he felt the first interest in the arrest; he was always by choice a preferrer of noble game.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth