discountenancing
Example Sentences
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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
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
He thus adopted a middle course, discountenancing alike the pedantry of the purists and the over-confident optimism of the vulgarists, who found in the uncouth popular speech all the material for a langue savante.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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 Bernbaum, Ernest
