disfavour

• disfavor

From English dis- +‎ favour, from Middle French desfaveur.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈfeɪvə(ɹ)/

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disfavour (countable and uncountable, plural disfavours) (British spelling)

1. Lack of favour; displeasure.

   His lateness for the appointment incurred her disfavour.

   • 1839, William Ewart Gladstone, The State in Its Relations with the Church:

     These same misdeeds have raised a strong sentiment of disfavour against its ally.

   • 1981 February 14, Eric E. Rofes, “Overlooking Our Differences”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 16:

     The ground-breaking work that lesbians and gay men have done in breaking down traditional roles for men and women in couples is given little attention [in this book] and creative sexual arrangements are looked at with subtle disfavor.

2. An unkindness; a disobliging act.
   • 1702-1704, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion:

     He might dispense favours and disfavours according to his own election.

3. A state of being out of favour.
   • 2013 September 18, “Editorial: Seriously ill still need asylum”, in Vancouver Sun:

     The term “insane asylum” fell into disfavour long ago, but asylum is what some mentally ill people need.

• maltreatment

• favour

disfavour (third-person singular simple present disfavours, present participle disfavouring, simple past and past participle disfavoured)

1. (British spelling) To show lack of favour or antipathy towards.

   Her past performance meant that she was often disfavoured for important tasks.

• discriminate
• maltreat

• favour

• “disfavour”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “disfavour”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.