[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

favor \fa"vor\, v. t. imp.  p. p. favored f=a"v~erd;
   p. pr.  vb. n. favoring. written also favour. cf. of.
   favorer, favorir. see favor, n.
   1. to regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have
      the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be
      propitious to; to treat with consideration or tenderness;
      to show partiality or unfair bias towards.
      1913 webster

            o happy youth and favored of the skies. --pope.
      1913 webster

            he that favoreth joab, . . . let him go after joab.
                                                  --2 sam. xx.
                                                  11.
      1913 webster

            the painter has favored her squint admirably.
                                                  --swift.
      1913 webster

   2. to afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a
      weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
      1913 webster

   3. to resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of;
      as, the child favors his father.
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            the porter owned that the gentleman favored his
            master.                               --spectator.
      1913 webster
see also:
favored favoring favor 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

favoring \fa"voring\, a.
   that favors. -- fa"voringly, adv.
   1913 webster
see also:
fa"voringly 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

favoring
     adj : supporting a policy or attitude etc; "an affirmative
           argument" syn: affirmative
see also:
affirmative 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

83 moby thesaurus words for "favoring":
   advantageous, advocating, agential, agentival, agentive, alike,
   aped, approving, assisting, auspicious, backing, beneficial,
   benign, benignant, better, brave, bright, conducive, consimilar,
   copied, counterfeit, employable, ersatz, facilitating, fair, fake,
   favorable, favored, following, fortunate, forwarding,
   full of promise, golden, good, handy, happy, helpful, homogeneous,
   identical, imitated, imitation, instrumental, intermediary, like,
   lucky, mediating, mediatorial, mimicked, ministerial, ministering,
   mock, more desirable, nearly reproduced, not unlike, of choice,
   of good omen, of happy portent, of promise, phony, preferable,
   preferential, preferred, preferring, pro, promising, promoting,
   propitious, prosperous, resembling, simulated, smacking of,
   something like, subservient, suggestive of, supporting, synthetic,
   to be preferred, toward, uniform with, use, useful, well-disposed,
   well-inclined

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