In 1944 Favard [5, pp. 229, 239] introduced a discretely defined operator which is a discrete analogue of the familiar GaussWeierstrass singular convolution integral. In the present paper we consider a slight generalization Fn,σn of the Favard operator and its Durrmeyer variant F̃n,σn and study the local rate of convergence when applied to locally smooth functions. The main result consists of th...