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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."

verb

Disfavor v. t. (past & past part. disfavored; pres. part. disfavoring)

To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance. "Countenanced or disfavored according as they obey."

To injure the form or looks of. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Disfavor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disfavor" Quotes from Famous Books

... here is still full of trouble, which moves my concern, though it moves only the secret laughter of many, and some untoward surmises in disfavor of him and his household. The loss of a very large sum of money (about 200l.) is talked of; whereof this vill and neighborhood is full. Some disbelieve; others says, 'It is no wonder, where about eighteen or more servants are sometimes taken and dismissed ...

— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot

... far enough from Egypt, at the islands off the west coast of Africa, where three vessels were scuttled, the crews all put ashore but one Portuguese pilot carried along to Brazil as guide. Thomas Doughty now fell in disfavor by openly acting as equal in command with Drake. Not in Egypt, but at Port St. Julian—a southern harbor of South America—anchored Drake's fleet. The scaffold where Magellan had executed mutineers half a century before still ...

— Vikings of the Pacific - The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward • Agnes C. Laut

... of this intimacy was not regarded by the Kendricks with any disfavor whatever. Scott and Fanny both had played with negro children, both had been reared by negro mammies. Neither realized that conditions were changed, that the negroes with whom they had associated were no longer an enslaved people, hopeless ...

— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine

... sight of him opened her heart. Shirley's friends hugged and kissed her and declared her lover to be all she had promised. The rich aunt regarded him with a disfavor she was ...

— The House of Toys • Henry Russell Miller

... word of his disfavor appeared, but in every news article there was in the headline a cunning turn or twist, calculated to arouse prejudice against me. I notice in this morning's issue of the American the same policy ...

— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane

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