DISFAVOR

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard. The people that deserved my disfavor. Is. x. 6 (1551). Sentiment of disfavor against its ally. Gladstone.

2.
n.

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.

3.
n.

An unkindness; a disobliging act. He might dispense favors and disfavors. Clarendon.

4.
v.

To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance. Countenanced or disfavored according as they obey. Swift.

5.
v.

To injure the form or looks of. [R.] B. Jonson.