Definition of favor

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Favor (n.) Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.

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Happy :: Happy (superl.) Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen..
Reactionary :: Reactionary (n.) One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution..
Please :: Please (v. i.) To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent..
Beg :: Beg (v. t.) To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor..
Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil..
Require :: Require (v. t.) To ask as a favor; to request.
Successary :: Success (n.) That which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player..
Ingratiate :: Ingratiate (v. t.) To introduce or commend to the favor of another; to bring into favor; to insinuate; -- used reflexively, and followed by with before the person whose favor is sought..
Dislike :: Dislike (n.) A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness..
Sideral :: Sideral (a.) Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful.
Prayer :: Prayer (v. i.) The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body..
Annexationist :: Annexationist (n.) One who favors annexation.
Gree :: Gree (n.) Good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; -- used esp. in such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that is, to take favorably..
Dependent :: Dependent (n.) One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents..
Argument :: Argument (n.) A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, concerning, or regarding a proposition, for or in favor of it, or against it..
Life :: Life (n.) Enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity..
Acceptableness :: Acceptableness (n.) The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability..
Fortune :: Fortune (n.) That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort..
Appointee :: Appointee (v. t.) A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed.
Engle :: Engle (n.) A favorite; a paramour; an ingle.
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