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.”

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We cannot stop it, but we can speak against it and write it down, and discountenance it in every possible way, as we are all bound to do.

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Emancipation, in spite of harsh laws passed to discountenance it, had rapidly gone on.

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As to indecency, in proportion as it is flagrant is the shock and resentment against it; and as vanity is the source of indecency, so the universal discountenance and shame is its most effectual antidote.

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You seemed, sir, to discountenance feelings as not agreeable to sober, rational worship; but, if I am not mistaken, reason by no means clashes with feelings of various sorts in religion.

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