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  1. favouredadjective

    Treated or regarded with partiality.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Favouredparticipial adj.

    Etymology: from favour.

    Oft with some favour’d traveller they stray,
    And shine before him all the desert way. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

    Of her there bred
    A thousand young ones, which she daily fed;
    Sucking upon her poisonous dugs, each one
    Of sundry shape, yet all ill-favoured. Fairy Queen, b. i.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of favoured in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of favoured in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of favoured in a Sentence

  1. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

    Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

  2. Kayvan Hazemi-Jebelli:

    The powers the Commission is looking into under the proposal would give it wide discretion to protect not just competition, but favoured competitors, unilaterally departing from the existing global competition law framework in this way would create an uneven playing field, and risks depriving Europeans' access to beneficial services and functionalities.

  3. French President Francois Hollande:

    Unfortunately the information we have ... confirms to us that the plane came down and is lost, no hypothesis can be ruled out, nor can any be favoured over another.

  4. Markus Huber:

    If this situation where a risk-off approach by investors is favoured drags on, markets are running the risk that the recent positive sentiment derived from the QE announcement will fade more and more into the background.

  5. Flavien Neuvy:

    But the lack of taxis at certain hours has probably favoured Uber in France, and it's true that car sharing has developed most of all in France over long distances, where there are no cheap buses running.

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