favoring

adjective

fa·​vor·​ing ˈfā-v(ə-)riŋ 

: providing or tending to provide help in moving forward : being in one's favor : advantageous

a favoring tide

They had flown away in the still June heat like dandelion spores, wafted by a favoring gale.

—Christine Carroll

At Cadiz the fleet was delayed by foul winds until 11 May, when it sailed with a favoring northerly.

—Samuel Eliot Morison

Word History

First Known Use

1586, in the meaning defined above