discountenance

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But when Hamilton pleaded a second time, Reverend Moore agreed, provided that if he lived, Hamilton would “employ all your influence in society to discountenance this barbarous custom.”

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2016

With affability, not anger, does he discountenance the evildoer.

From Time Magazine Archive

They did not, as was generally reported, decide to discountenance Loucheur's efforts at an agreement with Britain.

From Time Magazine Archive

American principles of fair play discountenance attempts to condemn a person by compelling him to disclose his own transgressions.

From Time Magazine Archive

I hope, however, what I have said in this last page will not discountenance those worthy characters who are employed in opening the book of knowledge to the eyes of the ignorant.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous