Favorer
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who favors.
"Of personage hee was tall and mightie […], in wit & memorie verie perfect: of suche maiestie tempered with humanitie, as best became so noble & high an estate: a great fauorer of learning, as he that was not ignorant of good letters himselfe, and for his greate magnificence and liberalitie, his renoune was spread through the whole world."
Example
More examples"Of personage hee was tall and mightie […], in wit & memorie verie perfect: of suche maiestie tempered with humanitie, as best became so noble & high an estate: a great fauorer of learning, as he that was not ignorant of good letters himselfe, and for his greate magnificence and liberalitie, his renoune was spread through the whole world."
Etymology
From Middle English favourer, favourere; equivalent to favor + -er.
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