Fa"vor*a*ble (?), a. [Written also
favourable.] [F. favorable, L. favorabilis
favored, popular, pleasing, fr. favor. See Favor,
n.] 1. Full of favor;
favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious;
friendly.
Lend favorable ears to our
request.
Shak.
Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy
land.
Ps. lxxxv. 1.
2. Conducive; contributing; tending to
promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient.
A place very favorable for the making levies of
men.
Clarendon.
The temper of the climate, favorable to
generation, health, and long life.
Sir W.
Temple.
3. Beautiful; well-favored. [Obs.]
Spenser.
-- Fa"vora*ble*ness, n. --
Fa"vor*a*bly, sdv.
The faborableness of the present times to all
extertions in the cause of liberty.
Burke.