favour
noun B1- British standard spelling of favor. · I need a favour. Could you lend me £5 until tomorrow, please?· Can you do me a favour and drop these letters in the post box?
Plural favours
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The lady looked at him coolly, without prejudice or favour.
One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself.
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.”
Bennet was beyond the reach of reason; and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
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