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. [ 1913 Webster ] Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient. [ 1913 Webster ] A place very favorable for the making levies of men. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ] The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Beautiful; well-favored. [ Obs. ] Spenser. -- Fa"vora*ble*ness, n. -- Fa"vor*a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ] The favorableness of the present times to all exertions in the cause of liberty. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ] | 
