a. ? Obs. [f. FAVOUR sb. + -LESS.] Without favor. a. Not showing favour, unpropitious. b. That has no attractiveness or beauty.
1509. Barclay, Shyp of Folys (1570), 166. O cruell death, O fury fauourlesse.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., II. ix. 7.
| Such happinesse | |
| Heven doth to me envy, and fortune favourlesse. |
1594. Marlowe & Nashe, Dido, III. i. Dido. Is not Æneas fair and beautiful? Anna. Yes; and Iarbas foul and favourless.
a. 1605. Polwart, Flyting w. Montgomerie, 618.
| Whose fauourlesse phisnomie doth dewlie declare | |
| His vices and viciousnesse. |
