Fautor
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fautor is a noun meaning Admirer, one who favours.
Meaning
Admirer, one who favours.
More Meanings
- Supporter, adherent, partisan.
- (obsolete) Patron, protector.
Example Sentences
...Edmund Wyld, Esq., also, then a member of Parliament and a great fautor of ingenious and good men for mere merit's sake.
The effect of the ſtatute of 16 R. 2 [Statute of Praemunire (16 Ric. II, chapter 5)] is, if any purſue or cauſe to be purſued in the court of Rome, or elſewhere, any thing with toucheth the king, againſt him, his crowne and regality, or his realme, their notaries, procurators, &c. fautors, &c. ſhall be out of the kings protection.
The laity of England had refused to apostatise; the fautor of his schemes was dead; and then, then, as a last miserable alternative, he dropped from his ambitious height back into the foul slough of avarice, and plied all the arts of threat and of falsehood to reconfiscate the revenues of the see of Canterbury, and figured once more not as head of the Church, not as source of jurisdiction, not as lord of all, but merely as a croned robber.
Word Forms
- fautors
- fautour
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include patron, patronizer, protecter, defensor, benefactor, forefighter.
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