"favorer" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Middle English favourer",
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      "expansion": "favor + -er",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English favourer, favourere; equivalent to favor + -er.",
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    {
      "form": "favorers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1751 January 22, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, volume 3, number 89, page 161",
          "text": "Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favourer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced, that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigour, must allow some of it to pass in trifles.",
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        {
          "text": "1845, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Zanoni, London: Chapman & Hall, 1853, Dedicatory Epistle, First prefixed to the Edition of 1845, p. vi,\nI love it not the less because it has been little understood, and superficially judged by the common herd. It was not meant for them. I love it not the more, because it has found enthusiastic favourers amongst the Few."
        },
        {
          "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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        "One who favors."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ally"
        },
        {
          "word": "backer"
        },
        {
          "word": "patron"
        },
        {
          "word": "proponent"
        },
        {
          "word": "supporter"
        },
        {
          "word": "favourer"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "favorer"
}

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English favourer, favourere; equivalent to favor + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "favorers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1751 January 22, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, volume 3, number 89, page 161",
          "text": "Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favourer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced, that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigour, must allow some of it to pass in trifles.",
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          "text": "1845, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Zanoni, London: Chapman & Hall, 1853, Dedicatory Epistle, First prefixed to the Edition of 1845, p. vi,\nI love it not the less because it has been little understood, and superficially judged by the common herd. It was not meant for them. I love it not the more, because it has found enthusiastic favourers amongst the Few."
        },
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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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        "One who favors."
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ally"
    },
    {
      "word": "backer"
    },
    {
      "word": "patron"
    },
    {
      "word": "proponent"
    },
    {
      "word": "supporter"
    },
    {
      "word": "favourer"
    }
  ],
  "word": "favorer"
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