Adjective : a favorable report. ,to make a favorable impression. ,a favorable position. ,The signs are favorable for a new start. From Dictionary.com.
There is often confusion between fairness and favorableness. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
Often, however, the seeming favorableness of conditions is deceptive. From Wordnik.com. [Energy and Society~ Chapter 4~ Sail and Trade] Reference
There was one second there around midnight when all the signs were at their absolute maximum favorableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Is Falling] Reference
Besides, the favorableness of the weather tended also to make travel more pleasant than in colder seasons of the year. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
Mutations and natural selection have been observed, but the observed frequency, magnitudes, and favorableness of mutations have not been nearly great enough to account for macroevolution. From Wordnik.com. [The 'rest of the story' - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
If, however, the witnesses for the same side disagree, the judge ought to use his own discretion in discerning which side to favor, by considering either the number of witnesses, or their standing, or the favorableness of the suit, or the nature of the business and of the evidence. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
But since, in spite of the promptings of his own desire, the favorableness of the time, and the delightful confusions of silence which overcame both Ruth and himself in the course of his visit, he said no more than any enthusiast in music might have said to any pretty girl who was disposed to listen to him, the historic Muse is free to follow Joseph Beaker, with whom she has present business. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
The results vary much with the favorableness of the conditions for growing alfalfa or the opposite. From Wordnik.com. [Clovers and How to Grow Them] Reference
We did not stop there because the favorableness of the weather served us in sailing along the coast: we think it must conform to the other. From Wordnik.com. [Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682] Reference
Hereto nonpasserine as a mortgage broker loan favorableness circumferential of imponderable bourn and adoptee, musd inimitable southerner, grownup bullace and coeducational heyerdahl. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
No favorableness of environment nor excellence of training can result in an efficient brain if the nerve energy has run low from depleted health, want of proper nourishment, or exhaustion. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind and Its Education] Reference
WE, the undersigned, as Trustees of the School at Fairfield, deem it a duty we owe to the School and the Public, to say that the favorableness of the situation, as regards health and morals, is surpassed by few, if any, in the State. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History] Reference
The nations were evaluated according to more than 120 criteria, ranging from the favorableness of their institutional and business environments to the size of their equity and bond markets, and from their technology infrastructure and human capital to the ease of obtaining consumer and commercial loans. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference
Observed frequency, magnitudes, and favorableness of mutations have not been nearly great enough to account for macroevolution. From Wordnik.com. [The 'rest of the story' - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
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