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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Fairfax skilled to discountenance indignities, replied: "I am standing here on my two feet—and here I stay!"

From Time Magazine Archive

It had taken them up; it could not afford to discountenance them for the single fault of a reduced income.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar