2. Adjective. Not favored ¹
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Definition of Disfavored
1. disfavor [v] - See also: disfavor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disfavored
Literary usage of Disfavored
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"... In advance that a forfeiture shall result from these serious transgressions.
And while forfeitures are not favored, they are not so far disfavored ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1913)
"It is pointed out that § 2 of the original bill provided in terms that in the
case of a rate discrimination, the carrier should be liable to the disfavored ..."
3. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851)
"I say, then, that, according to true history, the slave-holding interest in this
country has not been a disfavored interest; it has not been disfavored by ..."
4. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster (1881)
"I say, then, that, according to true history, the slave-holding interest in this
country has not been a disfavored interest; it has not been disfavored by ..."
5. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster: With an Essay on Daniel by Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (1914)
"I say then, that, according to true history, the slave-holding interest in this
country has not been a disfavored interest; it has not oeen disfavored by ..."
6. The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1903)
"I say, then, that, according to true history, the slave-holding interest in this
country has not been a disfavored interest ; it has not been disfavored by ..."
7. The Foundations of Legal Liability: A Presentation of the Theory and by Thomas Atkins Street (1906)
"... the adoption of strict disfavored, rules in this field, and pleas of justification
can truly be said to be disfavored. This is illustrated in Leyman v. ..."
8. The Great Issue: Or, The Three Presidential Candidates; Being a Brief by Oliver Cromwell Gardiner (1848)
"I say, then, that according to true honesty, the slaveholding interest in this
country has not been a disfavored interest ; it ..."
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