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English Dictionary: favored	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
favored adj preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child" Synonym(s): favored, favorite(a), favourite(a), best-loved, pet, preferred, preferent
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Favored \Fa"vored\, a. 1. Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend. 2. Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Favor \Fa"vor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Favored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Favoring}.] [Written also favour.] [Cf. OF. favorer, favorir. See {Favor}, n.] 1. To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards. O happy youth! and favored of the skies. --Pope. He that favoreth Joab, . . . let him go after Joab. --2 Sam. xx. 11. [The painter] has favored her squint admirably. --Swift. 2. To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy. 3. To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father. The porter owned that the gentleman favored his master. --Spectator.