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.”

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2016

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

They did not, as was generally reported, decide to discountenance Loucheur's efforts at an agreement with Britain.

From Time Magazine Archive

So again the period of impregnation has been thought to be the efficient cause; but recent observations discountenance this belief.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles