What's the difference between disfavor and disfavour?
Disfavor
Definition:
(n.) Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.
(n.) The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; as, to be in disfavor at court.
(n.) An unkindness; a disobliging act.
(v. t.) To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.
(v. t.) To injure the form or looks of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Accidentally discovered nearly 40 years ago as the first true antidepressants, the MAOIs soon fell into disfavor due to concerns about toxicity and seemingly lesser efficacy compared with the newer tricyclic compounds.
(2) It had to be done as a matter of principle and not in a manner that damaged the eventual nominee.” Sanders may not be able to achieve the seismic changes Jackson did – Democratic leaders would likely look with extreme disfavor on someone who until last year was not a member of the party demanding changes to proportionality or to the superdelegate system, for example.
(3) We replaced the YIGSR glycine residue in peptide 11 with either D-alanine or L-alanine to allow or disfavor the proposed glycine bend.
(4) The data permit structural features favoring, and disfavoring, good S1 binding to be clarified.
(5) The variation in guanine and cytosine (G + C) content revealed: (1) at 2-3 and 3-1 doublet positions CG discrimination is attenuated at high G + C, but TA disfavor is enhanced, and (2) several amino acids are subject to G + C change.
(6) The hot start technique, which may be done by withholding the DNA polymerase until the temperature is sufficiently high to disfavor nontarget specific pathways, allowed the use of a single primer pair and showed that the degree of target-specific amplification, and not the size of the amplified product, determines the success of the PCR in situ technique.
(7) It remains to be seen whether this Act will work without substantial corrections, particularly given the widespread disfavor it has met in the drug industry.
(8) It was the first hoped-for Aids miracle drug, but it caused serious side-effects and fell into disfavor.
(9) Although there was great diversity in views, physicians generally favored policies that increased responsibilities or costs for patients and disfavored policies that decreased physicians' autonomy of practice.
(10) Non-significant differences in the psycho-organic sign (P%, F+%) in disfavor the mongols were seen in the Rorschach experiment.
(11) In conclusion, none of the observed natural sequence variations are in disfavor of the proposed secondary structure model.
(12) The respondents tend to favor drinking distilled spirits during integrative social occasions, feel ambivalently toward drinking in social contexts that are simultaneously integrative and disintegrative and disfavor drinking during disintegrative and anxiety-reductive social occasions.
(13) The Lapidus procedure for correction of hallux valgus has fallen into disfavor over the years because of its complexity and often poor results.
(14) During the past ten years, immediate mandibular reconstruction has gradually fallen into disfavor because of the incidence of infection and the increasing use of preoperative radiation therapy.
(15) Processing occurred at A27 under conditions consistent with formation of an A27-C100 base pair in the acceptor stem but at G28 under conditions that disfavored base pair formation.
(16) An increase in the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) after years of disfavor has led to calls for more research on all aspects of this controversial treatment.
(17) Sexual dimorphism of recombination has been held by classic genetic theory to disfavor the heterogametic sex.
(18) These results probably can be extrapolated to other aminoglycoside antibiotics since most are hydrophilic and ionized at physiologic pH, which disfavors penetration into saliva.
(19) Due to the well known occurrence of a secondary sarcoma, the irradiation of a benign bone tumor or tumorlike lesion is strongly disfavored.
(20) The jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has met with increasing disfavor as a result of its unacceptably high complication rate.