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favouring, ppl. a.|ˈfeɪvərɪŋ, -vrɪŋ|
[f. favour v. + -ing2.]
That favours, in senses of the vb.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 52 Your entirely favouring and carefull loving friends. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. viii. 23 Thy fauouring hand. 1633T. James Voy. 6 With the first fauouring winde, we proceeded. 1763Sir W. Jones Caissa Poems (1777) 137 As favouring lots ordain. 1807Crabbe Library 104 Here the poet meets his favouring muse. 1807Wordsw. White Doe vii. 262 To Bolton's sacred Pile On favouring nights, she loved to go. 1875Whitney Life Lang. ii. 14 As fast as..favoring circumstances enable him to do so.
Hence ˈfavouringly adv., in a favouring manner.
1829Lytton Disowned II. ii. (ed. 3) 21 The ancient servant, on whom four years had passed lightly and favouringly. |