prefer

suosia

pitää enemmän

pitää parempana puhekieltä To advance, promote (someone). (defdate)
(RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncl), II.3.2:

Tiberius preferred many to honours in his time, because they were famous whoremasters and sturdy drinkers(nb..).

(ux)

"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;(nb..)."

one Master David Hume, who making some use of his purse, gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King James.

Such were the arguments which my will boldly preferred to my conscience, as coin which ought to be current, and which conscience, like a grumbling shopkeeper, was contented to accept(nb..).