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favour

verb C2
  1. British standard spelling of favor.

He/she/it favours · Past favoured · Past participle favoured · -ing form favouring

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Verb forms

Base form
favour
He/she/it
favours
Past
favoured
Past participle
favoured
-ing form
favouring

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Now, I am going to suggest a way in which you can give it that and at the same time do me a favour.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 29 · C1
The lady looked at him coolly, without prejudice or favour.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 35 · C1
One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 19 · B2
Allowing the case, however, to stand according to your representation, you must remember, Miss Bennet, that the friend who is supposed to desire his return to the house, and the delay of his plan, has merely desired it, asked it without offering one argument in favour of its propriety.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 54 · B2

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