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noun

Disfavor n. (Written also disfavour)

Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard. "The people that deserved my disfavor." "Sentiment of disfavor against its ally."

The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; as, to be in disfavor at court.

An unkindness; a disobliging act. "He might dispense favors and disfavors."

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Etymology of 'Disfavour'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disfavour" Quotes from Famous Books

... that no man can go on wanting his dinner who has had it. Whereas," he went on louder, because I had opened my mouth and was going to say something, "a woman artist who falls in love neglects everything and merely loves. Merely loves," he repeated, looking me up and down with great severity and disfavour. ...

— Christine • Alice Cholmondeley

... fallen of late years into disfavour as a British Herbal Simple, though a pamphlet has recently appeared, written by a Mr. Morley, who strongly advises the revived use of the herb for benefiting scrofulous disease. Therein it is ordered that the ...

— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

... fine figure exquisitely; her white, well-shaped hands were, as usual, loaded with brilliant rings. She was a woman who needed ornaments: they would have looked lavish on any one else, they suited her admirably. Once I caught her looking with marked disfavour on my black serge dress: the pearl hoop that had been my mother's keeper was my sole adornment. I daresay she thought me extremely dowdy. I once heard her say, in a pointed manner, that 'her cousin Giles ...

— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... particular time. At present, as at other periods during the recorded story of literature, there is a marked preference for all these things which it is not; and so Scott is, with certain persons, in disfavour accordingly. But it so happens that the study of this now long record of literature is itself sufficient to convince anyone how treacherous the tests thus suggested are. There never, for instance, was an English ...

— Sir Walter Scott - Famous Scots Series • George Saintsbury

... only to a point Of law respecting evidence he kept close to his subject, with a clearness and perspicuity very uncommon indeed amongst these orators. His voice, however, is greatly in his disfavour ; for he forces it so violently, either from earnestness or a fear of not being heard, that, though it answered the purpose of giving the most perfect distinctness to what he uttered, its sound had an unpleasing ...

— The Diary and Letters of Madam D'Arblay Volume 2 • Madame D'Arblay

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