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Definition of Disfavouring
1. disfavour [v] - See also: disfavour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disfavouring
Literary usage of Disfavouring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Intellectual Property Rights and Agriculture in Developing Countries edited by Jeroen Van Wijk, Walter Jaffe (1998)
"Applying the rule disfavouring restraints on alienation to the PVPA is rather
like applying the rule disfavouring restraints on freedom of contract to ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"Spencer takes a wrong view of the process involved, in disfavouring nature myths
on the ground that they imply an intellectual curiosity about causes and ..."
3. Germany by OECD Staff, OECD (2004)
"In order to maintain and further strengthen the innovative capacity of the economy
it will be necessary to remove distortions in the tax system disfavouring ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1859)
"... an unwonted) activity, it is by thus exalting the will, and so disfavouring
the development of excito-motory action, that this remedy relieves asthma. ..."
5. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"'I mean that you are likely to run into the other extreme of disfavouring yourself
just now, my child. And,' continued the duchess, 'you have behaved'so ..."
6. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"... be a power of favouring or disfavouring, without any regard to appropriate
aptitude, the pretensions of probationers, in any number, at hit pleasure. ..."
7. Chambers's Biographical Dictionary: The Great of All Times and Nations by Francis Hindes Groome, David Patrick (1898)
"He took a very prominent part in the Congress of Vienna, rearranging a German
confederation (while disfavouring German unity under Prussian influence), ..."
8. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
""I mean that you are likely to run into the other extreme of disfavouring yourself
just now, my child. And," continued the duchess, " you have behaved so ..."
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