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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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... been overwhelmed at Chaeronea, in the defeat of the allied Thebans and Athenians, Demosthenes, who had organized the unsuccessful resistance to Philip, still retained the favor of his countrymen, fickle as they were. With the exception of a short period of disfavor, he practically regulated the policy of Athens till his death in ...

— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various

... you long as an adjutant: a bad position! Tell him I remember and like him. Write and tell me how he receives you. If he is all right—serve him. Nicholas Bolkonski's son need not serve under anyone if he is in disfavor. ...

— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... astounded. "You do not smoke? Ah, perhaps it is my poor tobacco! But wait, I have a cigarro which the storekeeper gave me when I—No? No smoke nothing? Ah, well, well—no smoke, no Mexicano, as the saying goes." He regarded his guest doubtfully, with a shadow of disfavor. Then, rolling a cigarette, he remarked: "You have a very white skin, Senor Hardy; I think you have not been in ...

— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge

... this presumptuous woman! Ha, does she not give herself the appearance of not remarking that I constantly have for her a clouded brow and an unfriendly greeting? How! will she not take the pains to see that her empress looks upon her with disfavor? But she shall see and feel that I hate, that I abhor her. Oh, what a powerless creature is yet an empress! I hate this woman, and she has the impudence to think I cannot punish her unless ...

— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach

... to Adele is the extreme disfavor in which she finds that Madame Arles is now regarded by the townspeople. Her sympathies had run out towards the unfortunate woman in some inexplicable way, and held there even now, so strongly that contemptuous mention of her stung like a reproach to herself. At least she was a countrywoman, and ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 • Various

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