Meanings of court favour in English

On the contrary there are many passages which Lucan would hardly have written while he was enjoying court favour: e.g.

A deeper faith would have said, 'Perish court favour and everything that hinders me from making known whose I am.'

It seems the proposals were a flash in the pan, or more likely, a populist attempt to court favour with right-wing voters.

The Alexandrians were sorely harassed by Haephasstus, a lawyer, who had risen by court favour to the chief post in the city.

Fortified in his allegiance and court favour by this alliance, he returned in triumph to Dublin, where he was welcomed with enthusiasm.

There was a prevalent, though unfounded, conviction that they were maintained in power by a combination of court favour with Irish sedition.

They were both connected with the highest society of their times; both enjoyed court favour, and enjoyed it in the substantial shape of pensions.

The course he took shut him off from all chance of Court favour.

And he, Levisohn, was clever enough to see his way to Court favour.

The first three books were published while he yet basked in the sunshine of court favours.

Court favour cannot enrich a family in this country, and the operation of the law is tolerably equal.

The Court favoured their lead.

In this poem, the author has in the most lively manner, painted out the misfortune of depending on court favours.

Despite the reprehensible behaviour of the mother in removing the child, the court favoured the child remaining in its new settled environment.

Their feelings and sympathies were Hanoverian rather than English, and all court favours were bestowed as fast as possible upon their countrymen.

Knowing how precarious Court favour then was, his father, when young Rochefoucauld was only nine years old, sent him into the army.