unfavor

English

Alternative forms

• un-favor
• unfavour (UK)

Etymology

From un- +‎ favor.

Noun

unfavor (uncountable)

1. (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