favouredly

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Etymology[edit]

favoured +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

favouredly (comparative more favouredly, superlative most favouredly)

  1. (obsolete) In a favoured or favourable manner; favourably.
    • 1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus:
      For of fence , almost in every town , there is not only masters to teach it , with his provosters , ushers , scholars , and other names of art and school ; but there hath not failed also , which hath diligently and favouredly written it

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for favouredly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)