Synonyms:
favored, favorite(a), favourite(a), best-loved, pet, preferred, preferent
Meaning: preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child"
Usage examples
"Are you Mr. Maloney, may I ask?" enquired the favored one.
All the events would have favored an expedition of this kind.
Fortune favored us in that it was a beautiful day and the number of guests was large.
The law favored this realization of the serf, in not allowing him to be sold out of the country."
The savages approached without running, but they favored us with a show of the greatest hostility.
He is well favored in person, and well liked, too, I believe, and comes of one of the first families of the village.
In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: Prude, under which we have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection.
But the constant motion of the tides offers, at some favored points, a source of power that will remain as long as the earth revolves upon its axis.
Favored by a powerful current and the rhythmic paddling of our Santa Rosans, we made this day sixty miles; but our average daily run was fifty miles.
Parsons, Temple, Loftus, and Meredith, who favored the opposite party, had been removed; and Charles had supplied their place by others better affected to his service.