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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

... "And so fell into disfavor with his old friends the Brownists," remarked Standish carelessly. "Well, 't is all one to me, who am no church member, and deny not due respect to the old faith of mine house. And you ...

— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin

... had regarded Mr. Barholm with a spice of disfavor, still could not look with ill-nature upon this pretty girl. The slatternly women nudged each other as she passed, and the playing children stared after their usual fashion; but even the hardest-natured matron could find nothing more condemnatory to say than, "Hoo's ...

— That Lass O' Lowrie's - 1877 • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... sailors to a belief in the globular figure of the earth. The writings of the Mohammedan astronomers and philosophers had given currency to that doctrine throughout Western Europe, but, as might be expected, it was received with disfavor by theologians. When Genoa was thus on the very brink of ruin, it occurred to some of her mariners that, if this view were correct, her affairs might be re-established. A ship sailing through the straits of Gibraltar westward, across the Atlantic, would not fail to reach the East Indies. ...

— History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science • John William Draper

... by a "selective" draft, or conscription. Conscription had formerly been looked upon with disfavor as a form of forced military service. A volunteer army was thought to be more in harmony with a democratic form of government. But the draft is now seen to be far more democratic than a volunteer army ...

— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn

... various philosophies dealing with the purposes of man. Man seeks this or that—the eternal good, beauty, happiness, pleasure, survival—but always he is represented as a seeker. A very popular doctrine, Hedonism, now somewhat in disfavor, represents him as seeking pleasurable, affective states. The difficulty of understanding the essential nature of pleasure and pain, the fact that what is pleasure to one man is pain to another, rather discredited this as a psychological ...

— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson

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