See favorer on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Beach of Falesá”, in Island Nights' Entertainments, London: Cassell, published 1893, page 66:",
"text": "I’m no missionary, nor missionary lover; I’m no Kanaka, nor favourer of Kanakas—I’m just a trader; I’m just a common, low-down, God-damned white man and British subject, the sort you would like to wipe your boots on.",
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