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favourer|ˈfeɪvərə(r)|
Also 6 Sc. favorar.
[f. favour v. + -er1.]
One who favours.
1. One who countenances, encourages, or sides with another; a well-wisher, friend, or follower.
1483Cath. Angl. 124/1 A Fauerer, favtor. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 64 Preamb., The same persones..were adherentis, assistencis, confederatis, favowrers. 1535Coverdale 1 Macc. vii. 7 Let him be punished with all his frendes and fauourers. 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 84 He was a great favourer of the French Nation. 1691Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 318 Being supposed a favourer of King James. 1741Richardson Pamela IV. 62 That modest Freedom..which..some of my Favourers attribute to me. 1876Lytton Pausanias 49 A favourer of the Persians.
†b. Const. to, towards. Obs.
1547–64Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) 56 They are not..faithfull fathers, friends, and fauourers to their country. 1586R. Carvyle in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. 225 III. 119 A favorer towards the mayntenaunce of peace and amitie.
†c. A patron; = fautor 2.
1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis ii. xxi. 138 Go, Souldiers, with the gods your favourers, and subdue those men. 1741Middleton Cicero II. vii. 18 A particular favorer, and Patron of Ariobarzanes.
2. One who supports or promotes a movement, opinion, project, etc.; a furtherer, promoter.
1542–5Brinklow Lament. (1874) 91 Those whiche saye they be the favorers of the Gospell. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. vii. §4 (1873) 53 Learned, or singular favourers and advancers of learning. 1662H. More Philos. Writ. Pref. Gen. (1712) 23 They were no enemies to the opinion of the Soul's Prae-existence, but rather favourers thereof. 1703J. Savage Lett. Antients clxx. 394 Whether Matters will be refer'd to any favourer of Peace. 1792F. Burney Diary V. vii. 304 The French Revolution, of which she is a favourer. 1875Tennyson Q. Mary i. v, They think me favourer of this marriage. |