misfavourmisfavorn.
/ˌmɪsˈfeɪvə/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈfeɪvər/ rare.
Disfavour, ill favour.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > [noun]
malgracea1450
disfavoura1533
discountenance1579
misfavoura1660
a1660 in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1880) III. i. 142 The clergie..deliuered their opinions in his misfauour.
1909 A. Meynell Ceres' Runaway 56 Making sport of the Philistines with a proper national sense of enjoyment of..such natural difficulties, or such misfavour of fortune, as may beset the alien.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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- semivisible
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- semivitrification
- semivitrified
- semivocal
- semivolatile
- semivolcanic
- semivoluntary
- semivowel
- semivowels
- semiwatergas
- semiweeklies
- semiweekly
- semiwestern grip
- semiwild
- semiworks
- semiyear
- semliki forest
- semliki forest virus
- semmit
- semmits
- semnable
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