disfavourdisfavorn.
/dɪsˈfeɪvə/, U.S. /dɪsˈfeɪvər/ 1. The reverse or opposite of favour; unfavourable regard, dislike, discountenance, disapproval.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > [noun]
malgracea1450
disfavoura1533
discountenance1579
misfavoura1660
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) xix. (R.) Ye women..with a littel disfauour ye recouer great hatred.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xix. B The kynges disfauoure is like ye roaringe of a Lyon.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. viii. vi. 399/2 Robert Gemeticensis..spred the Curtaine of disfauour betwixt Goodwin and the King.
1665 G. Wither Medit. upon Lords Prayer 27 Not knowing how to please one of their faigned gods without incurring the disfavour of another.
1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury x. 106 The disfavour, which attends the cause of the money-lender, in his competition with the borrower.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 169 The name of ‘professor’ will never lose its disfavour until..associated among us with the dignity of a life devoted to science.
1871 H. W. Longfellow Legend Beautiful in Atlantic Monthly Dec. 659 At the gate the poor were waiting..Grown familiar with disfavor.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > ill-will > action > [noun]
unkindnessa1450
disfavour1556
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > [noun] > instance of
unkindnessa1450
disfavour1556
imbonity1624
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > ill will, malevolence > [noun] > instance of
disfavour1556
malignancy1609
1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. B6 A thousand disfauours and a thousande woes.
1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 277 When I..had so many disfauours of ingratefull Diana.
?1610 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 3 I never needed my Mistris frowns and disfavours, to make her favours acceptable to me.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 34 He might dispense favours, and disfavours according to his own election.
3. The condition of being unfavourably regarded. Hence to be (live, etc.) in disfavour, to bring, come, fall, etc. into disfavour.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > [noun]
lose1297
misreportc1425
unhonestyc1425
obloquy1469
misfame1482
discredit1551
disfavour1581
disgrace1597
disesteem1603
discredence1611
disestimation1619
disreputation1633
disrepute1653
distrust1667
disreputableness1710
disconsideration1835
nigritude1869
disodour1882
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > [noun] > condition of being disfavoured
maugrec1300
offencea1387
dedignationa1552
disfavour1581
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 53 Devising how to bring some Officer into the disfavour of his Prince.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvi. xl. 615 Hee was in disgrace and disfavour with Hanno.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Warw. 124 This Earl lost the love of King Charles, living many years in his Dis-favour.
1669 S. Pepys Diary 7 Apr. (1976) IX. 512 Mr. Eden, who was in his mistress's disfavour ever since the other night that he came in thither fuddled.
1849 G. C. Lewis Ess. Infl. Authority vi. §11 The disfavour into which it [the government] may have fallen.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. xix. 363 The poor young Prince..had fallen into open disfavour.
4. in (the) disfavour of, to the disfavour of: to the disadvantage of, so as to be unfavourable to.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > disadvantageously [phrase] > to the disadvantage of
to a person's cost?1531
in (the) disfavour of1590
to the disfavour of1858
1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 125 The disposition is thereby void: and that in disfauour of the testator.
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 99 He was not bounde to obey, if it were in his disfavour.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 211. ⁋3 Acquaintance has been lost through a general Prepossession in his Disfavour.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxiv. 333 The first comparisons were drawn between us—always in my disfavour.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. 208 That actions of doubtful bearing should be construed to their disfavour.
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun]
uglinessc1340
foulnessa1398
dishonestyc1400
deformityc1450
laidure1483
ugsomeness1483
evilfavouredness1535
ill-favouredness1565
hard-favouredness1585
deformedness1588
disgrace1596
unsightliness1611
disfavour1706
hard-featuredness1839
eye-soreness1883
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Disfavour..Disfigurement. Hence in Bailey.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Disfavour..3. Want of beauty. Dict.
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disfavourdisfavorv.
1. † b. To dislike. Obsolete or dialect.
a. transitive. To regard or treat with the reverse of favour or good will; to discountenance; to treat with disapprobation.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > [verb (transitive)]
mislooka1450
disfavour1571
discountenance1589
disgrace1593
dishearten1658
to lean against1804
I don't go much on1882
1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. A.7 The King..persaifing his vnfaithfull deilling euer disfauourit him.
1583 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue xxxvi, in Poems (1870) 72 The heau'ns them selues disfauour mine intent.
1669 Earl of Clarendon Ess. in Tracts (1727) 97 Persons who are like to disfavour our pretences.
1711 J. Swift in Misc. Prose & Verse 193 Might not those of..nearer access to her majesty receive her own commands, and be countenanced or disfavoured according as they obey?
1881 Times 13 July 6/3 The railway company favours a town by giving preferential low rates, while the trade of another town is disfavoured by having higher rates.
1895 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 130 He disfavoured controversy.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > [verb (transitive)]
mislikea1225
to like illa1350
to have no fancy with1465
mislovec1485
abominec1500
not to look ata1529
to have no will of, (also in)1548
misaffect1586
to have or take a stitch againsta1591
dislike1593
to take (a) toy to (also at)1598
disfavour1599
disgust1601
disaffect1609
mistaste1613
disrelisha1616
dispalate1630
abominate1652
disfancy1657
to have it in for1825
to have a down on1835
to sour on1862
to go off ——1877
derry1896
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 175 Who it is thought doth disfavour them as much as his Father doted on them.
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Disfavour, to dislike, to take a Pique at, or bear a Grudge to a Person.
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > disfigure [verb (transitive)]
loathly?c1225
defacec1374
disfigurec1374
emblemishc1384
defoula1387
unhighta1387
disray1431
deform?c1450
foul?c1450
deflower1486
defeata1492
unbeauty1495
deflourisha1513
disform?1520
ungarnish1530
disfashiona1535
disfavour1535
disgrace1549
unbeautify1570
uglify1576
disbeautify1577
dishonest1581
disshape1583
disornament1593
disadorn1598
undeck1598
disvisage1603
unfair1609
untrim1609
debellish1610
disfair1628
discomplexion1640
devenustate1653
disfeature1659
monkeyfy1707
ugly1740
defeature1792
dedecorate1804
scarecrow1853
nastify1873
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xiv. 6 There is no thinge worse, then whan one disfauoureth himself.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 168 It scoureth away freckles and such flecks as disfauor the face.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 203 Their whole visages so disfigured and disfauoured in a moment, that their neerest friends..cannot knowe them.
Derivatives
disˈfavoured adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > [adjective] > disfavoured
gracelessa1413
discountenanced1749
unfavoured1774
demonish1808
disfavoured1865
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Desfavorisé, disfauoured, out of fauour with.
1865 Athenæum 23 Dec. 889/3 The unfavoured, or rather disfavoured, study of Sanscrit.
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