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!"
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American principles of fair play discountenance attempts to condemn a person by compelling him to disclose his own transgressions.
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With affability, not anger, does he discountenance the evildoer.
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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 Edgar Fawcett
Colorado mine operators discountenanced the comparatively conservative United Mine Workers some time ago, introducing company unions to replace branches of the A. F. of L. subsidiary.
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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.
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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.
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When deprived of the regular Democratic nomination, he had firmly discountenanced a "McKee Anyway" movement.
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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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I must beg, therefore, that, if the rumor be true, you use all practicable means, even to the use of your parental authority, in discountenancing and forbidding such intimacy.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various
I kept my own counsel in this matter, as I had very good reasons for discountenancing any proposal to investigate the lunar scenery too closely.
From To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks
The educated women among us need to set the pace in discountenancing the social glass in their homes.
From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Daniel Wallace Culp
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