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Definition of the day : « discountenance »
- verb reject, oppose
- verb embarrass, disconcert
- If unhappily thrown among them, discountenance them to the utmost.
- Extract from : « Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford » by Edward Berens
- As an Association they are pledged to discountenance just what I did.
- Extract from : « Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall » by Jean K. Baird
- All citizens are urged to discountenance the building of fires.
- Extract from : « Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror » by Richard Linthicum
- He would not allow stone-flinging, because it was a habit of his to discountenance it.
- Extract from : « The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Complete » by George Meredith
- Let them in their several stations encourage virtue and discountenance vice in others.
- Extract from : « A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. » by William Wilberforce
- Her approbation was olive oil; her discountenance prickly heat.
- Extract from : « The Shriek » by Charles Somerville
- He has stationed himself there merely to watch and discountenance her.
- Extract from : « Camilla » by Fanny Burney
- Nor does He discountenance earnest activity in the duties of the present.
- Extract from : « Sermons » by Clement Bailhache
- I discountenance and disapprove of any and all such practices.
- Extract from : « History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 2 » by Joseph Smith
- It was absolutely necessary to discountenance these personal applications.
- Extract from : « Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles » by Mrs. Henry Wood