2. Verb. (third-person singular of disfavour) ¹
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Definition of Disfavours
1. disfavour [v] - See also: disfavour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disfavours
Literary usage of Disfavours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1897)
"... base favours the A current and disfavours the K current. In other words, the
anodic or acidic polarisation is favoured by base, disfavoured by acid; ..."
2. The Journal of Physiology by Physiological Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"... often of opposite character, and similarly warmth, whilst it disfavours the
initial, often appears to favour the excitatory value of subsequent stimuli. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"... which Mauritius forms one, may not have existed, or may have been connected
with the mainland, though its evident volcanic origin disfavours this view. ..."
4. Representative British Dramas: Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"One might say, therefore, before examining the dramas of Robert Browning, that
he habit of the poet would meet with many disfavours on the stage. ..."
5. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"... degree of particularity and precision of which the nature of the subject is
susceptible, it would tainly as it disfavours the liberty of preventing it. ..."
6. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1874)
"Your grace's frowns are to them shaking fevers ; your least disfavours the greatest
ill-fortune that may betide them. They can build no temples but ..."
7. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1843)
"... or rather resignation, of the king, so that he might dispense favours and
disfavours according to his own election, he had a full share in his master's ..."
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