What's the difference between benevolence and favor?

Benevolence


Definition:

  • (n.) The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
  • (n.) An act of kindness; good done; charity given.
  • (n.) A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As I watched it, I thought of all the arguments over trade that we’ve had in this country since the early 1990s, all the sweet words from our economists about the scientifically proven benevolence of free trade, all the ways in which our newspapers mock people who say that treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement allow companies to move jobs to Mexico.
  • (2) Who would blame the man who wants to assure his own homeostasis and happiness only by accumulating the treasure of other poeple's benevolence and love?
  • (3) The Chinese government is depicted as benevolent, while the US government manages to be both sinister and useless – typified by the black-clad CIA operatives, one of whom gets beaten up by a Chinese character.
  • (4) And as someone who spent a lot of time with their grandmother, it seemed only natural that bank robbers would meet their match in a benevolent pensioner.
  • (5) The overall histologic appearance of the mesenchymal and epithelial components is benign, and preliminary clinical data suggest that the tumor has a benevolent course.
  • (6) On the benevolence dimension (e.g., trustworthiness, kindness), however, effectiveness interacted with age, such that for younger adults ineffective speakers were viewed significantly less positively than their more effective peers.
  • (7) So the idea of a benevolent dictator is not my cup of tea.” He conceded that Trump’s rise had affected his standing with voters.
  • (8) To the seven million citizens who watched Liu’s slow death in equal parts horror and grief, any remaining pretence that modern China is a benevolent paternal state that has moved beyond a brutal response to political debate has been shattered once and for all.
  • (9) This is not about benevolent indulgence but achievement of genuine equality in support and contribution.
  • (10) The remark evoked a defensive response from those wedded to the ephemeral virtues of the "confidence fairy" – and who are concerned to keep her benevolent figure hovering above Britain's severely weakened economy.
  • (11) A study of the sexual, benevolent and aggressive social interactions, of the authors of the acts, of the type of issues, of the intervention of chance and of the quality of emotions, as well, as of the diversity of the intervening people.
  • (12) Berkeley held that the moral duty of mankind was to obey God's laws; that--since God was a benevolent Creator--the object of His laws must be to promote the welfare and flourishing of mankind; and that, accordingly, humans could identify their moral duties by asking what system of laws for conduct would in fact tend to promote that object.
  • (13) Presented as a benevolent behemoth of fast-track regeneration, the Games were supposed to leave behind a shiny new world of 12,000 homes and 10,000 jobs, set amid the rolling hills of the largest new park in Europe.
  • (14) Shirk said one-party China – a country most still associate with little more than economic success and autocratic governance – saw a chance to rebrand itself as a benevolent great power acting in the common good.
  • (15) So the idea of a benevolent dictator is not my cup of tea Rand Paul Paul said polls became part of “a self-reinforcing news cycle because of the celebrity nature that goes on, on and on”, though he accepted that voters might “at a superficial level be attracted to bombast, insults, junior high sort of lobbing of verbal bombs that kind of stuff”.
  • (16) A large, intrusive government – however benevolent it claims to be – is not immune from the simple truth that centralized power threatens liberty.
  • (17) Students became less Authoritarian, less Benevolent, more inclined toward Mental Health Ideology, and less Social Restrictive.
  • (18) Beard told the New Yorker she had taken a similarly benevolent approach with another internet abuser who called her evil following her Question Time appearance.
  • (19) The recent history of South Africa according to FW de Klerk goes something like this: a white minority government, ruled by a series of benevolent dictators, was keen to devolve power to the black majority as equal partners.
  • (20) These tell less numerous dreams, which are shorter, less rich, heavier with aggressive events and painful sexuality and less provided with benevolence.

Favor


Definition:

  • (n.) Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
  • (n.) The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
  • (n.) The object of regard; person or thing favored.
  • (n.) A gift or represent; 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.
  • (n.) Appearance; look; countenance; face.
  • (n.) Partiality; bias.
  • (n.) A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.
  • (n.) Love locks.
  • (n.) 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 countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.
  • (n.) To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
  • (n.) To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While it is true that Clinton’s favorability rating is languishing among all voters, her favorability among Democrats is as robust as Biden’s, at nearly 75% .
  • (2) Conditions consistent with a buildup of reduced flavoprotein, however, favored filament formation.
  • (3) Only Arteparon had a favorable effect on the integrity of the articular surface.
  • (4) In fact, the distribution of [3H]oleate between plasma membranes and unilamellar vesicles of lipids extracted from these membranes was in favor of the lipids, indicating the absence of a detectable amount of binding to a putative fatty acid binding protein in plasma membranes.
  • (5) During the interview process, nurse applicants frequently inquire about the availability of such a program and have been very favorably impressed when we have been able to offer them this approach to orientation.
  • (6) The accumulated evidence would strongly favor an affirmative answer.
  • (7) Our findings suggest that many traditional biological features used to estimate prognosis in ALL can be discarded in favor of clinical features (leukocyte count, age, and race) and cytogenetics (ploidy) for planning of future clinical trials.
  • (8) Although histologic proof of regression is not available, this experience suggests a more favorable prognosis than previously thought possible.
  • (9) Pathological changes may, thus, be initially confined to projecting and intrinsic neurons localized in cortical and subcortical olfactory structures; arguments are advanced which favor the view that excitotoxic phenomena could be mainly responsible for the overall degenerative picture.
  • (10) This structural change opens the heme pocket and modifies the general conformation of the EF segment, thus explaining the increase in oxygen affinity and the achievement of a three-dimensional structure favoring asparagine deamidation.
  • (11) The reported study demonstrates that performance asymmetries between normal or reflected letters presented in the right and left visual field favors the right visual field when stimulus patterns are blocked and rotated 90 degrees clockwise and favors the left visual field when they are blocked and rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
  • (12) Generally the course of symptoms was more favorable, when people found a satisfactory job.
  • (13) The compounds favored the development of bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas and inhibited the growth of all other gram-negative bacteria.
  • (14) This compares favorably to our previous experience in survivors of prehospital cardiac arrest not receiving a controlled antiarrhythmic program.
  • (15) The same experimental conditions that favored a large component of Cao-activated Na efflux also caused a large increase in Ca influx.
  • (16) In favorable cases, tRNA-DNA hybrids of length about 80 nucleotide pairs can be recognized (although with difficulty).
  • (17) Patients with grade 2 carcinoma could be separated into one subgroup with small nuclei (mean nuclear area less than or equal to 95 microns2) having a favorable outcome (5-year survival rate: 100%), and into another subgroup with large nuclei (mean nuclear area greater than 95 microns2) showing a worse prognosis (5-year survival rate: 63.2%) (Mantel-Cox, P = .01).
  • (18) The favorable prognosis is due solely to the fact that women with an IUD have far less negative antecedents and that the EP probably occurred due to impaired ciliary action, reversible when the IUD is removed.
  • (19) Employment patterns favored men returning to work, and number of hours worked was highly correlated with less depression, younger age, and return of energy.
  • (20) The immunologic technique compared favorably with the autoradiographic methods performed concurrently on the same cultures.