misfavour
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Alternative form of misfavor.
Example Sentences
- "First, because his old age, which uses to be subject to choler, inclined now to misfavour his sons, therefore there shall not be an old man left of his house for ever;"
- "And now he misfavours me, and hath performed the desire of Thetis, who kissed his knees, and laid her hand upon his beard, and besought him to give honour to Achilles, despoiler of cities;"
- "Some favoured it and her, some winked at it, some misfavoured; and these were the grey beards and white mutches."
- "The basic vehicle differences can be expected to misfavour type MB if the differences are significant."
- "[…] to account for the stability of a social structure which greatly misfavours certain social strata of society."
- "But rules that for their recommendation, or exception, require a constant eye to these archetypes, can be but of limited service in this country, where there is little acquaintance we suspect with the models themselves; and, where their importation under any condition, would be received, we doubt not, with distrust and misfavour."