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n. - The quality of not being encouraging or indicative of success.

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Usage examples (5)
  • Could she be relied upon to rep resent her brother unfavourably, with the right colour of unfavourableness?
  • There is a certain degree of unfavourableness in the sentiments of his fellow-creatures, under which hardly any man, not below the standard of humanity, can endure to live.
  • Her fever became more violent; her delirium was stronger; and the tortures of her imagination were proportioned to the unfavourableness of the state in which the removal...
  • They convoked a national council, notwithstanding the unfavourableness of a silent persecution; and, in spite of the penury which afflicted the pastors, the latter had...
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