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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Miss Edith Liedenwall is bound to comply with the wishes of her relatives on whom she is dependent, and they consider it their duty to discountenance her engagement to Mr. Richard Baradlay.

From The Baron's Sons by J?kai, M?r