favored

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For if either had been withdrawn at any time, his favorers would not have gone over to the other, but would have sought for some one of homogeneous opinions.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Its greatest favorers love it better in the abstract than in the substance.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Not a single name of the favorers or opposers of the Union, here quoted as witnesses, is Celtic.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Thebaud, Augustus J.

Aristocracy, favorers of, 5; small danger of, 165; southern, 258; causes of, 298; tendencies to, 223.

From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Ford, Paul Leicester

Margaret mentions among the women whom she considered helpers and favorers of the new womanhood, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Jameson, and our own Miss Sedgwick.

From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Howe, Julia Ward