favorer

Alternative forms

• favourer

Etymology

favor +‎ -er

Noun

favorer (plural favorers)

1. One who favors.
   • 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, London: John Hunne, “King Henry the eyghte,” p. 1612,

     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.

   • c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Act I, Scene 4,

     […] by the semblance

     Of their white flags display’d, they bring us peace,

     And come to us as favourers, not as foes.

   • 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, Volume 3, Number 89, 22 January, 1751, p. 161,

     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.

   • 1845, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Zanoni, London: Chapman & Hall, 1853, Dedicatory Epistle, First prefixed to the Edition of 1845, p. vi,

     I love it not the less because it has been little understood, and superficially judged by the common herd. It was not meant for them. I love it not the more, because it has found enthusiastic favourers amongst the Few.

   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Beach of Falesá” in Island Nights' Entertainments, London: Cassell, 1893, p. 66,

     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.

Anagrams

• overfar

Etymology

Compare Italian favorire.

Verb

favorer

1. to favour, promote, encourage, prefer, further, support