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Antonyms for discountenance

Grammar : Verb
Spell : dis-koun-tn-uh ns
Phonetic Transcription : dɪsˈkaʊn tn əns

Definition of discountenance

Origin :
  • "put to shame," 1570s, from Middle French descontenancer (16c.) "to abash," from des- (see dis-) + contenancer (see countenance).
  • verb reject, oppose
  • verb embarrass, disconcert
Example sentences :
  • 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

Synonyms for discountenance

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