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Favor Meaning French Partiality Late Show Good Kindness

正面 3396.favor
英 ['feɪvə]美 ['fevɚ]

背面
释义:
vt. 赞成;喜欢;像;赐予;证实n. 喜爱;欢心;好感
例句:
1. Recent opinion polls show that 60 percent favor abortion under certain circumstances.最近的民意调查显示,60%的人赞成在某些情况下可以堕胎。

1、de- "away from" + creas- + -e.
favor 恩惠,好感,偏好来自拉丁语favere, 好感,来自PIE*ghow, 尊敬,崇拜,词源同gaze.古罗马学者西塞罗将该词词义弱化为亲切,友好,偏好。
favor (n.)c. 1300, "attractiveness, beauty, charm" (archaic), from Old French favor "a favor; approval, praise; applause; partiality" (13c., Modern French faveur), from Latin favorem (nominative favor) "good will, inclination, partiality, support," coined by Cicero from stem of favere "to show kindness to," from PIE *ghow-e- "to honor, revere, worship" (cognate: Old Norse ga "to heed"). Meaning "good will, kind regard" is from mid-14c. in English; sense of "act of kindness, a kindness done" is from late 14c. Meaning "bias, partiality" is from late 14c. Meaning "thing given as a mark of favor" is from late 15c. Phrase in favor of recorded from 1560s.favor (v.)mid-14c., "to regard with favor, indulge, treat with partiality," from Old French favorer, from favor "a favor, partiality" (see favor (n.)). Meaning "to resemble, look somewhat like" is from c. 1600. Related: Favored; favoring."

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