Favor vs. Privilege — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Favor and Privilege
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Favor
A gracious, friendly, or obliging act that is freely granted
Do someone a favor.
Privilege
A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group
Education is a right, not a privilege
He has been accustomed all his life to wealth and privilege
Favor
Friendly or favorable regard; approval or support
Won the favor of the monarch.
Looked with favor on the plan.
Privilege
Grant a privilege or privileges to
English inheritance law privileged the eldest son
Favor
A state of being held in such regard
A style currently in favor.
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Privilege
A special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste.
Favor
Unfair partiality; favoritism
The referees were warned not to show favor to either team.
Privilege
Such an advantage, immunity, or right held as a prerogative of status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others.
Favor
A privilege or concession
Had the favor of talking with her for an hour.
Privilege
The principle of granting and maintaining a special right or immunity
A society based on privilege.
Favor
Favors Permission to engage in sexual activity, especially when granted by a woman to a male partner.
Privilege
Protection from being forced to disclose confidential communications in certain relationships, as between attorney and client, physician and patient, or priest and confessor.
Favor
Something given as a token of love, affection, or remembrance.
Privilege
Protection from being sued for libel or slander for making otherwise actionable statements in a context or forum where open and candid expression is deemed desirable for reasons of public policy.
Favor
A small decorative gift given to each guest at a party.
Privilege
An option to buy or sell a stock, including put, call, spread, and straddle.
Favor
Advantage; benefit
Sailed under favor of cloudless skies.
Privilege
To grant a privilege to.
Favor
Behalf; interest
An error in our favor.
Privilege
To free or exempt.
Favor
(Obsolete) A communication, especially a letter.
Privilege
To assign greater importance or priority to
“A Harvard Law grad who taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago, he is steeped in a tradition that privileges the Bill of Rights over the crude or arbitrary exercise of power” (Evan Thomas).
Favor
Aspect or appearance.
Privilege
An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope.
Favor
Countenance; face.
Privilege
(countable) A particular benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity enjoyed by some but not others; a prerogative, preferential treatment.
All first-year professors here must teach four courses a term, yet you're only teaching one! What entitled you to such a privilege?
Favor
(Obsolete) A facial feature.
Privilege
An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something).
Favor
To perform a kindness or service for; oblige.
Privilege
(uncountable) The fact of being privileged; the status or existence of (now especially social or economic) benefit or advantage within a given society.
Favor
To have a liking for; be partial to; prefer
Favored coffee over tea at breakfast.
Favored the suitor with the quick wit.
Privilege
A right or immunity enjoyed by a legislative body or its members.
Favor
To approve, advocate, or support
Economists who favor free trade.
Privilege
A stock market option.
Favor
To show partiality or unfair preference to
Thought the law favored men over women.
Privilege
(legal) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
Your honor, my client is not required to answer that; her response is protected by attorney-client privilege.
Favor
To believe to be most likely to succeed
The Tigers are favored to win the championship.
Privilege
(computing) An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users.
Favor
To be advantageous to; make more likely to be successful
Darkness favored their escape. The climate favors conifers.
Privilege
(archaic) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize
To privilege representatives from arrest
Favor
To speed up or otherwise increase the success of (a chemical process or pathway)
Increasing the pressure favors the reaction.
Privilege
(archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
Favor
To treat with care; be gentle with
Favored my wounded leg.
Privilege
A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.
He pleads the legal privilege of a Roman.
The privilege birthright was a double portion.
A people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties.
Favor
Chiefly Southern US To resemble in appearance
She favors her father.
Privilege
See Call, Put, Spread, etc.
Favor
To resemble another in appearance
She and her father favor.
Privilege
To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
To privilege dishonor in thy name.
Favor
A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
He did me a favor when he took the time to drive me home.
Privilege
To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
He took this place for sanctuary, And it shall privilege him from your hands.
Favor
Goodwill; benevolent regard.
She enjoyed the queen's favor.
To fall out of favor
Privilege
A special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
Favor
A small gift; a party favor.
At the holiday dinner, the hosts had set a favor by each place setting.
A marriage favour is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.
Privilege
A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right);
Suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males
Favor
Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
Privilege
(law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship
Favor
The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
Privilege
Bestow a privilege upon
Favor
(obsolete) Appearance; look; countenance; face.
Favor
(legal) Partiality; bias
Favor
(archaic) A letter, a written communication.
Favor
(obsolete) Anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favor.
Favor
(obsolete) A ribbon or similar small item that is worn as an adornment, especially in celebration of an event.
Favor
To look upon fondly; to prefer.
Favor
To use more often.
Favor
To encourage, conduce to
Favor
To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.
Would you favor us with a poetry reading?
Favor
To treat with care.
Favoring your sore leg will only injure the other one.
Favor
To resemble; especially, to look like (another person).
Favor
Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
Hath crawled into the favor of the king.
Favor
The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending.
But found no favor in his lady's eyes.
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
Favor
A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration.
Beg one favor at thy gracious hand.
Favor
Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
I could not discover the lenity and favor of this sentence.
Favor
The object of regard; person or thing favored.
All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man,His chief delight and favor.
Favor
A gift or present; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.
Wear thou this favor for me, and stick it in thy cap.
Favor
Appearance; look; countenance; face.
This boy is fair, of female favor.
Favor
Partiality; bias.
Favor
A letter or epistle; - so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.
Favor
Love locks.
But, with your favor, I will treat it here.
Favor
To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.
O happy youth! and favored of the skies.
He that favoreth Joab, . . . let him go after Joab.
[The painter] has favored her squint admirably.
Favor
To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
Favor
To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.
The porter owned that the gentleman favored his master.
Favor
An act of gracious kindness
Favor
An advantage to the benefit of someone or something;
The outcome was in his favor
Favor
An inclination to approve;
That style is in favor this season
Favor
A feeling of favorable regard
Favor
Souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party
Favor
Promote over another;
He favors his second daughter
Favor
Consider as the favorite;
The local team was favored
Favor
Treat gently or carefully
Favor
Bestow a privilege upon
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