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8 words match “BEFRIEND”

BEFRIEND v.
To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. By the darkness befriended. Longfellow.
BEFRIENDMENT n.
Act of befriending. [R.]
CAUSE n.
party; a principle which is advocated; that which a person or party seeks to attain. God befriend us, as our cause is just. Shak. The part they take against me is from zeal to the cause. Burke. Efficient cause, the agent or force that produces a change or redult. -- Final cause, the end, design, or object, for which…
COUNTER a.
ne, and restoring a former state of things. -- Counter revolutionist, one engaged in, or befriending, a counter revolution. -- Counter round (Mil.), a body of officers whose duty it is to visit and inspect the rounds and sentinels. -- Counter sea (Naut.), a sea running in an opposite direction from the wind. -- Cou…
FAVOR n.
ng, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending. But found no favor in his lady's eyes. Dryden. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke ii. 52.
FRIEND v.
To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend. [Obs.] Fortune friends the bold. Spenser.
LITTERATEUR n.
One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus. " Befriended by one kind-hearted littérateur after another." C. Kingsley.
UNFRIENDED a.
Wanting friends; not befriended; not countenanced or supported. Goldsmith. If Richard indeed does come back, it must be alone, unfollowed, unfriended. Sir W. Scott.