disfavor, disfavour (disfavor)

[OF. des faveur, F. défaveur = Sp. disfavor = Pg. desfa vor = It. disfavore, As unjust favor put him in, why doubt Disfavor as unjust has turned him out? Lowell, Tempora Mutantur. Those same misdeeds have raised an energetic timent of disfavour against its ally. sen Gladstone, Church and State. 2. Want of favor; the state of being regarded unfavorably: as, to be in disfavor at court. Many a good acquaintance has been lost from a general prepo e ion in his disfavour . Steele, Tatler, No. 211. 3t. An act of disregard, dislike, or unkindne . He might dispense favours and disfavours . Clarendon, Civil War, I. 49. =Syn. Disfavor , Disgrace , etc. See odium . disfavor, disfavour (dis-fa'vor), v. t . [= It. disfavor ire, sfavorire (cf. OF. des favor i ser , F. défavoriser = Sp. Pg. desfavorecer ), favorire , favor are ( favorizare ), favor: see dis- and favor , v. Cf. disfavor, n.] 1. To withdraw or withhold favor, friendship, or support from; check or oppose by disappro- [ disestablish + -ment .] The act of depriving, or the condition of being deprived, of the pos i- tion and privileges of an established body; es- pecl pecially, the act of withdrawing a church from a privileged relation to the state: as, the dis- establishment of the Irish Church by Parliament bation; discountenance. in 1869. Might not those of higher rank, and nearer acce to her majesty, receive her own commands and be counte The earnest and active attention of the Society is dinanced or disfavoured according as they obey? rected to procure not only the repeal of the Blasphemy 21. To mar; blemish; disfigure. laws, "as a special matter affecting its members," disestablishment and disendowment of all State Churches, but also the redistribution of real and personal property, the regulation of wages, and the abolition of the House of Lords. Saturday Rev. His [Mr. Fawcett's] position on the disestablishment and disendowment of the Established Church illustrates the many-sidedne of his judgment. R. J. Hinton , Eng. Radical Leaders, p. 24.