unfavor
English
Alternative forms
- un-favor
- unfavour (British)
Etymology
From un- + favor.
Noun
unfavor (uncountable)
- (rare, nonstandard) Absence or lack of favor.
- 2000, B. R. Kumawat, Teachers' English Language and Teaching:
- Having no stand to show favour at one time and unfavour at another time.
- 2014, Alton One Jenkins, The Midas King Chronicles, volume 1:
- He emerged out from the rear of the temple and into the courtyard of the Four Kings where he was met with un-favor and disciplined silence...the silence of over five hundred warriors.
- 2019, Lothar Schilling, Jakob Vogel, Transnational Cultures of Expertise, page 57:
- On all these men, on their favour or unfavour depended my future fate, and I was received in the most kind of gentle manner.
Synonyms
- disfavour