Word Meanings - PROSLAVERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Favoring slavery. -- n.

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• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• FAVORITE
  Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• FAVOREDNESS
  Appearance.
• FAVORED
  1. Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend. 2. Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
• FAVORER
  One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.
• SLAVERY
  1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this
• FAVORITISM
  The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality. A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States. A. Hamilton.
• FAVOREDLY
  In a favored or a favorable manner; favorably. Deut. xvii. 1. Arscham.
• FAVORLESS
  1. Unfavored; not regarded with favor; having no countenance or support. 2. Unpropitious; unfavorable. "Fortune favorless." Spenser.
• FAVORING
  That favors. -- Fa"vor*ing*ly, adv.
• UNFAVORABLE
  Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv.
• DISFAVORABLY
  Unpropitiously.
• EVIL-FAVORED
  Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed. Bacon. -- E"vil-fa`vored*ness, n. Deut. xvi. 1.
• ANTISLAVERY
  Opposed to slavery. -- n.
• HARD-FAVORED
  Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored. Dryden.
• DISFAVORABLE
  Unfavorable. Stow.
• HARDFAVOREDNESS
  Coarseness of features.
• DISFAVORER
  One who disfavors. Bacon.
• PROSLAVERY
  Favoring slavery. -- n.
• WELL-FAVORED
  Handsome; wellformed; beautiful; pleasing to the eye. Rachel was beautiful and well-favored. Gen. xxix. 17.
• DISFAVOR
  1. Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard. The people that deserved my disfavor. Is. x. 6 . Sentiment of disfavor against its ally. Gladstone. 2. The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state