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† ˈfavourless, a. ? Obs.
[f. favour n. + -less.]
Without favour. a. Not showing favour, unpropitious. b. That has no attractiveness or beauty.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 166 O cruell death, O fury fauourlesse. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. ix. 7 Such happinesse Heven doth to me envy, and fortune favourlesse. 1594Marlowe & Nashe Dido iii. i, Dido. Is not æneas fair and beautiful? Anna. Yes; and Iarbas foul and favourless. a1605Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 618 Whose fauourlesse phisnomie doth dewlie declare His vices. |