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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. 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.

  2. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

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

  3. Belinda Clur:

    The traditional shopping centre model is turning on its head, creative, niche, differentiated store types now seem preferred to replicated options and smaller, focused formats seem favoured over large, cumbersome alternatives.

  4. 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.

  5. Christopher Granville:

    The only way to achieve spending cuts that will move the needle will be to attack these favoured areas of spending - which is pensions first and foremost.

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    (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
    A valetudinarian
    B askant
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