discountenancing
Example Sentences
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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
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
He had the effect of shutting his wife out of the conversation; of definitely snubbing and discountenancing her.
From The Precipice by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
It was, of course, not difficult for him to show that the clergy had acted wisely in discountenancing an insurrection of the success of which there had never been even the most remote possibility.
From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by John Charles Dent
