(a) To regard (a person) with good will, benevolence, sympathy, or esteem; (b) to regard (a thing, belief, etc.) with approval or preference; to give assent to; (c) absol. to be benevolently disposed.

(a) To manifest good will or propitious regard toward (a person); to bestow favor upon (a person); (b) to aid, assist, or support (a person, a creature); to give support or furtherance to (a cause); (c) to encourage (a person) to do something; (d) to give favorable attention (to a request).

To show mercy or leniency.

(a) To treat (a person) with special regard or partiality; to show partiality in applying (the law); (b) to be partial.

(a) To simulate (something); (b) wel favoured, good-looking, comely; worst favoured worst-looking, ugliest.