favoring

English

Verb

favoring

  1. present participle and gerund of favor

Noun

favoring (plural favorings)

  1. (philosophy) The act or state by which one favors something; preference.
    • 2018, Stefan Fischer, The Origin of Oughtness: A Case for Metaethical Conativism, page 69:
      Unlike in Smith's case, however, here the relevant intuition does not concern a particular example, but moral favorings in general. Intuitively, it is said, what we morally ought to do simply does not depend on what we want to do.
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