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- adjective Not
favourable ;unfavourable .
Etymologies
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disfavour + -able
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Examples
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Yet the reign of Elizabeth was hardly more fertile -- the Renaissance movement in our poetry led English writers into the pleasant paths of a revived and (with them) innocent classicalism: whilst the unsettled elements in the religious sphere, the dominance of Genevan doctrine -- fervid indeed, but narrow, ultra-dogmatic, and rarely blessed by the smile of the Muses -- were conditions equally disfavourable.
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