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

He had the effect of shutting his wife out of the conversation; of definitely snubbing and discountenancing her.

From The Precipice by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson

The length to which he dared go in discountenancing any restriction, even regarding his moral ideas, is illustrated in an incident related in his autobiography.*

From The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 by Linn, William Alexander

While thus discountenancing any intimacy between her daughter and the Emperor, she too died, and the princess was left parentless.

From Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan by Wilson, Epiphanius