ˈhard-favoured, a. arch.
[See hard a. 13 and favour n. 9.]
Having a hard or unpleasing ‘favour’, appearance, or look; ill-favoured, ugly.
| 1513 More in Grafton Chron. (1568) II. 758 Richard the thirde sonne..was..hard favoured of visage. a 1592 Greene & Lodge Looking Glasse Wks. (Rtldg.) 141/1 As hard-favoured a devil as ever I saw. 1768 Boswell Corsica iii. (ed. 2) 226 The Corsicans are in general of small stature, and rather hard-favoured. 1852 Dickens Bleak Ho. xix, Humouring the joke with a hard-favoured smile. |
Hence hardˈfavouredness.
| 1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. viii. 42 Because of his hardfavourednesse and deformity. a 1665 J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 56 The fat [kine] had need..to have been..twenty times seven times fatter than they were, to have wrought a cure upon the leanness and hardfavouredness of the other. |