favour (obs. or archaic senses are the foll.; 4 and 5 were very common in the 15th-16th cent.)
1.
leave,
permission, pardon
LLL. III. i. 70
“By thy ,”
John II. i. 422
“Speak on with ,”
H8 I. i. 168, Mac. I. iii. 149,
Ham. I. ii. 51
“Your leave and
favour.”
2.
lenity, leniency
Mer.V. IV. i. 387
“that, for this , He
presently become a Christian,”
2H6 IV. vii. 72
“Justice with ,”
Ant. III. xi. [xiii.] 133, Ven. 257.
3.
attraction, charm
2H6 I. ii. 4
“frowning at the f-s of
the world,”
Ham. IV. v. 188
“turns to and to
prettiness,”
Oth. IV. iii. 21
“even his . . . frowns .
. . have grace and favour in
them.”
4.
appearance, aspect,
look
John V. iv. 50
“the and the form Of
this most fair occasion,”
H5 V. ii. 63,
Cæs. I. iii. 129
“the complexion of the
element In f-'s† like the work we
have in hand”
(Ff “Is Fauors,
like,” some mod. edd. “is f-ed”), Lr. I. iv.
260.
5.
countenance, face
Meas. IV. ii. 34
“a good you have,”
Troil. I. ii. 99
“a brown ,”
Ham. V. i. 213,
Sonn. cxiii. 10
“if it see . . . The
most sweet or deformed'st creature”
; pl. features 1H4 III. ii.
136, Lr. III. vii.
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