favoredness

English

Etymology

From favored +‎ -ness.

Noun

favoredness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of favouredness.
    • 1611, “Deuteronomy 17”, in Whitaker House, editor, KJVER Holy Bible: (King James Version Easy Read), published 2024:
      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.
    • 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:
      One 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.
    • 1919, Anthony Hope, The Secret of the Tower, published 2015:
      Beaumaroy […] had never been more forcibly struck with his protege's ill-favoredness than when he arrived home on this same evening
  • evil-favoredness
  • ill-favoredness
  • well-favoredness
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