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
They did not, as was generally reported, decide to discountenance Loucheur's efforts at an agreement with Britain.
From Time Magazine Archive
With affability, not anger, does he discountenance the evildoer.
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Dr. Fairfax skilled to discountenance indignities, replied: "I am standing here on my two feet—and here I stay!"
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Emancipation, in spite of harsh laws passed to discountenance it, had rapidly gone on.
From Baltimore and The Nineteenth of April, 1861 A Study of the War by George William Brown
The Board through its business conduct committee, has always discountenanced bear raids and manipulations of prices, and it again instructs that commit tee to take particularly vigorous measures to prevent such activities.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Committee concludes that, in nearly all instances, weapons discountenanced by international law were first employed by the Allies and then adopted in "rightful reprisal" by The Central Powers.
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When deprived of the regular Democratic nomination, he had firmly discountenanced a "McKee Anyway" movement.
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The same ship that carried discountenanced Warlord Chang Hsueh-liang and his 17 "secretaries" from Shanghai last week also bore Benito Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister to China, going home for a vacation.
From Time Magazine Archive
The proper condemnation of persecution is, that it is an illegitimate opposition which is sure to be discountenanced as men become manly and refined.
From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by George Jacob Holyoake
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.
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Several bond houses wrote back, politely but firmly discountenancing the notion of preferring stocks to bonds as investments.
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But all that would not keep him from openly discountenancing her judgment before people.
From The Precipice by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A favourable occasion for circumscribing these evils, and discountenancing this injustice, is, we conceive, now offered to Congress, in the power and opportunity of legislating for the newly acquired territory of the Floridas.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various
Dear Brother, I like your ballad, and think it well adapted for your purpose of discountenancing expensive foppery, and encouraging industry and frugality.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
