unfavourableness
- a word derived from unfavourable.
Example Sentences
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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.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
Sydney was originally in the state that Perth presents now; but there the natural unfavourableness of the soil has been entirely overcome.
From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Landor, Edward Wilson
To these causes of mortality, so much the more active from operating on bodies already exhausted or enfeebled, was added the unfavourableness of the season; obstinate rains, followed by more obstinate drought, and violent heat.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
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 had been effected.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William
Could she be relied upon to rep resent her brother unfavourably, with the right colour of unfavourableness?
From The Emancipated by Gissing, George
