Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of favouredness.
Beaumaroy […] had never been more forcibly struck with his protege's ill-favoredness than when he arrived home on this same evening
1919, Anthony Hope, The Secret of the Tower, published 20152 more examples
You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evil-favoredness: for that is an abomination to the Lord your God.
1611, “Deuteronomy 17”, in Whitaker House, editor, KJVER Holy Bible: (King James Version Easy Read), published 2024One the other side, an honest man who had love for a married woman on account of her modesty and the well-favoredness of her children, might, without formality, beg her company of her husband, that he might raise, as it were, from this plot of good ground, worthy and well-allied children for himself.
1901 [1859], Plutarch, “Spartan Institutions Lycurgus”, in A. H. Clough, transl., edited by Oliver J. Thatcher, The Library of Original Sources, volume II: the Greek World, published 2004, page 120
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