discountenance

He may be ever so cultured or refined; indeed, he may even be attractive, still he is discountenanced simply on account of the accident of color.”

“In a siege,” said Dr. Trefusis, “time’s passage is itself an event, and one of the keenest weapons of assault. You appear discountenanced.”

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.”

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.

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