discountenancing
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Several bond houses wrote back, politely but firmly discountenancing the notion of preferring stocks to bonds as investments.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Gabon's 6,000 Frenchmen that meant only one thing: the U.S. had been behind the abortive coup in hopes of discountenancing le grand Charles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Quaker rule of discountenancing marrying out of meeting tended to keep a large acreage in the family and to make it larger by marriage.
From The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware by Sydney George Fisher
Three years after this pleasant event he incurred the king's wrath by discountenancing his majesty's authority over the Church.
From Sketches of the Covenanters by J. C. McFeeters
But all that would not keep him from openly discountenancing her judgment before people.
From The Precipice by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
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