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To favour
Answer for the clue "To favour ", 6 letters:
prefer
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Word definitions for prefer in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (lb en transitive now dated) To advance, promote (someone). (from 14 th c.) 2 (lb en transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. (from 14 th c.) 3 (lb en transitive) To present or submit ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to put forward or advance in rank or fortune, to promote," from Old French preferer (14c.) and directly from Latin praeferre "place or set before, carry in front," from prae "before" (see pre- ) + ferre "to carry, to place" (see infer ). Meaning ...
Usage examples of prefer.
It also prefers the savor of those who have allowed their receptor planes to tarnish with succulent trace elements, spewed up by the hot accretion disk below.
These were the sections which more closely mirrored conditions on the sort of mainly methane-atmosphered planets and moons the Affront preferred, and it was in these the Affront indulged their greatest passion, by going hunting.
Generally speaking, he prefers bright tints to darker ones, but his likes and dislikes are capricious, and with regard to some colors his antipathy amounts to positive horror.
Invalids have often preferred this plant to the Scurvy grass as an antiscorbutic remedy.
Her hair fell loose and tangled over her shoulders, because she had not been offered a thong to tie it up with, and she wore the odd alien clothing that the Antler affected, rather than the animal skins her people wore in the cold season, or the nudity they preferred in the heat.
On the one hand, he was conservative architecturally, preferring Gothic buttresses as a means of support, and his attempt to raise the buttresses of the tribunes may have been not only out of concern for visibility but also an attempt to use the tribunes and buttresses as supporting members for the dome.
I appointed the collector, as I thought, on your written recommendation, and the assessor also with your testimony of worthiness, although I know you preferred a different man.
They prefer to remain in one place and move only when the entire Associative moves to a new location.
Edgar arrived, Sir Hugh told him of the affair, assuring him he should never have taken amiss his preferring Camilla, which he thought but natural, if he had only done it from the first.
But, except in mild cases, other more positively astringent herbs are to be preferred.
Some preferred the Autumnal Equinox, because then the harvests were gathered, and the hopes of a new crop were deposited in the bosom of the earth.
It was thawing a little, as if Bradley had completed the job of sizing Bannerman up and had decided that he would prefer to talk with him rather than seem to have any contact with Maritta.
After this, of her own movement, she never spoke of Gordon, and Bernard made up his mind that she had promised her mother to accept him if he should repeat his proposal, and that as her heart was not in the matter she preferred to drop a veil over the prospect.
Usually, the high bettors would stand right at the track, so they would park their carriages farther away, leaving the circle around the track for those people who preferred to watch with their ladies from the comfort of their vehicles.
Whatever Hal was after, by definition it would be something which Bleys would prefer he did not have.