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discountenance

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dis·coun·te·nance  (ds-kount-nns)
tr.v. dis·coun·te·nanced, dis·coun·te·nanc·ing, dis·coun·te·nanc·es
1. To view or treat with disfavor.
2. To put out of countenance; disconcert.
n.
Disfavor or disapproval.
discountenance [dɪsˈkaʊntɪnəns]
vb (tr)
1. to make ashamed or confused
2. to disapprove of
n
disapproval
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Verb1.discountenance - look with disfavor on; "The republic soon discountenanced its few friends"
shame - cause to be ashamed
2.discountenance - show disapproval by discouraging; "any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced"
disapprove - consider bad or wrong


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Where a man in any station had given satisfactory evidence of his fitness for it, a new President would be restrained from attempting a change in favor of a person more agreeable to him, by the apprehension that a discountenance of the Senate might frustrate the attempt, and bring some degree of discredit upon himself.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
Several important considerations have been touched in the course of these papers, which discountenance the supposition that the operation of the federal government will by degrees prove fatal to the State governments.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context
The interests of the French crown, endangered at this moment, are to discountenance rebellion in a neighboring nation.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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