Definition of "favourer" []

• Alternative form of favorer. (noun)

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• "He is called a "favourer" of the new doctrines, but it is not stated how far he went in their support."
• "Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation"
• "‘If he has,’ said I, ‘he has done it unwittingly; I never heard before that he was a favourer of the popish delusion.’"