favoring

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of favor

noun

1. The act or state by which one favors something; preference.

   “Unlike in Smith's case, however, here the relevant intuition does not concern a particular example, but moral favorings in general. Intuitively, it is said, what we morally ought to do simply does not depend on what we want to do.”