Favorer

Quick meaning: Favorer is a noun meaning One who favors.

Meaning

One who favors.

Example Sentences

[…] by the semblance Of their white flags display’d, they bring us peace, And come to us as favourers, not as foes.

I’m no missionary, nor missionary lover; I’m no Kanaka, nor favourer of Kanakas—I’m just a trader; I’m just a common, low-down, God-damned white man and British subject, the sort you would like to wipe your boots on.

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favourer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced, that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigour, must allow some of it to pass in trifles.

Of personage hee was tall and mightie […], in wit & memorie verie perfect: of suche maiestie tempered with humanitie, as best became so noble & high an estate: a great fauorer of learning, as he that was not ignorant of good letters himselfe, and for his greate magnificence and liberalitie, his renoune was spread through the whole world.

Word Forms

• favorers
• favourer

Synonyms for favorer

Depending on context, synonyms include ally, backer, patron, proponent, supporter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include proponent, subsidizer, promoter, admirer, honorer, beneficiary.

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