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单词 hard-favoured
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hard-favouredhard-favoredadj.

Brit. /ˌhɑːdˈfeɪvəd/, U.S. /ˌhɑrdˈfeɪvərd/
Forms: 1500s–1600s hard-fauor'd, 1500s–1600s hard-fauored, 1500s–1600s hard-fauoured, 1600s hard-fauour'd, 1600s– hard-favoured, 1800s– hard-favored (chiefly U.S.).
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: hard adj., favour n., -ed suffix2.
Etymology: Apparently < hard adj. + favour n. (compare favour n. 9) + -ed suffix2. Compare earlier ill-favoured adj., well-favoured adj. Compare also favoured adj.2
Now archaic and used chiefly with allusion to Shakespeare (see quot. a1616 at sense 1).
1. Of a person: coarse-featured, hard-faced; having a harsh, ugly, or unpleasant appearance, aspect, or character. Also in extended use. Cf. ill-favoured adj. a.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [adjective]
foulOE
uglyc1386
malgraciousa1393
unsightlya1400
loathc1400
ouglec1415
shrewdc1430
unsightyc1440
unwholesome?a1500
evil-favoured1530
ill-favoured1530
uglisome1530
huggeda1533
hard-favoureda1535
evil-liking1535
ill-favorited1579
stigmatical1589
stigmatic1597
sightlessa1616
hard-featured1638
grislya1681
bad-looking1757
unmackly1765
unfavourable1776
dissightly1777
eyesore1798
wavelled1886
spiderly1891
Plain Jane1912
hackit1985
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 37/1 Richarde the third sonne..was..hard fauoured of visage.
1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. I.j If you say it wer good to mary an hard fauored woman, then I answere, she wil be lothsome.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. i. 8 Stiffen the sinewes, commune vp the blood, Disguise faire Nature with hard-fauour'd Rage: Then lend the Eye a terrible aspect. View more context for this quotation
1655 T. Culpeper Morall Disc. & Ess. iv. 32 It is but an hard-favoured, rugged, and un-courtly Vertue, destitute of all those graces and charms which are wont to captivate our aff[e]ctions.
1676 H. C. Char. Honest Lawyer sig. B2v Hard favour'd Ladies hate Handsome Chamber-maids.
1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica iii. 226 The Corsicans are in general of small stature, and rather hard-favoured.
1833 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 29 June 174/3 When your master put a new Latin book into your hands..in its bare, hard, dry outline.., if something were told you about the men who wrote these hard-favoured little books, and about the comparative merits of their style, [etc.].
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xix. 191 Humouring the joke with a hard-favored smile.
1925 D. Heyward in O. Henry Prize Stories of 1925 (1926) 193 The hard-favoured woman with the daunting look turned and..seated herself humbly beside the cripple.
1991 Guardian 14 May 6/1 Summoning up the blood, putting on some hard-favoured rage, and especially lending the eye a terrible aspect all comes easily to the man who put the mouth into Monmouth.
2. Of an argument, opinion, fact, etc.: objectionable; uncompromising. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [adjective] > worthy of disapproval > not worthy of approval
hard-favoured1595
implausible1602
unapprovable1647
objectionable1653
unexemplar1685
exceptionable1691
unexemplary1699
ceptionable1702
objectable1747
beastly1763
objectional1799
unqualifiable1823
funky1946
1595 F. Bunny Suruey Popes Supremacie i. 55 If the argument be hard fauoured and mishapen, and ill tied together, and agree like strings al out of tune, blame him that make it so.
1675 S. Loveday Personal Reprobation Reprobated xii. 216 These verses are by many persons much wrested and abused, as they are compelled to serve in that hard service of strengthening that hard-favoured opinion of personal and eternal predestination.
1800 T. Cooper Polit. Ess. 18 Socinianism..Deism..Atheism... If a man be a good Citizen..should he be..sneered at..or have some of these hard-favoured Isms thrown at his head if he cannot subscribe to the infallibility of his opponent?

Derivatives

hard-ˈfavouredness n. now rare ugliness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun]
uglinessc1340
foulnessa1398
dishonestyc1400
deformityc1450
laidure1483
ugsomeness1483
evilfavouredness1535
ill-favouredness1565
hard-favouredness1585
deformedness1588
disgrace1596
unsightliness1611
disfavour1706
hard-featuredness1839
eye-soreness1883
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. viii. 42 Because of his hardfavourednesse and deformity.
1687 Chirurgorum Comes i. iii. 464/1 Disfiguring is a kind of Ugliness, or hard-favouredness canted by wounding.
1893 W. T. Lewis Geneal. Lewis Family in Amer. xvi. 322 He was a very raw-boned, lean-visaged man, and in point of hard-favoredness he had but few equals.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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