a. Obs. [f. as prec. + -OUS. Cf. OF. favo(u)reux.] a. Full of favor, obliging. b. Adapted to win favor, pleasing.
c. 1485. Digby Myst. (1882), III. 673. To wype my fete þou wer nat so faworus.
1560. Rolland, The Court of Venus, I. 591.
| Lufe is facound: and lufe is fauorous. | |
| Ibid., IV. 110. | |
| With humbill hart and hauingis dolorous, | |
| Lawlie langage, and fassounis fauorous. |
1597. Breton, Wit’s Trenchmour, Wks. (1879), 9/2. When women were wont to be kind-harted, conceits in men were verie fauourous: and who could be so pittilesse, as to see the conswaption of a kinde humor, for a word of little good meaning.
1775. Ash (citing Chaucer), Favirous, favourable.
