discountenance

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

American principles of fair play discountenance attempts to condemn a person by compelling him to disclose his own transgressions.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The “Brethren” disapprove of any association of Christians for any purpose whatever, whether civil or religious, and therefore discountenance all Sunday School, Bible, Missionary, or even purely Benevolent, Societies. 

From Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Caroline Frances Cornwallis

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Most charitable view of the matter is that Mr. Curtis, having discovered how his name was being used, discountenanced his henchmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

When deprived of the regular Democratic nomination, he had firmly discountenanced a "McKee Anyway" movement.

From Time Magazine Archive

To prove-27- that he discountenanced making defence against the Indians, his opponents offer the testimony of certain village officials, whose affidavits prove only that Sir Edmund probably had read Shakespeare.

From A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c. by William Henry Whitmore

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

Several bond houses wrote back, politely but firmly discountenancing the notion of preferring stocks to bonds as investments.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there are other cogent reasons for discountenancing early marriages, also drawn from the physiology of reproduction, to say nothing of the many reasons which might be urged on other grounds.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg

What the hour demanded were poets who, discountenancing any mistrust of the natural emotions, should give them free rein.

From English Poets of the Eighteenth Century by Ernest Bernbaum

This implies dealing discreetly with the offender instead of directly discountenancing him.

From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense