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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Fairfax skilled to discountenance indignities, replied: "I am standing here on my two feet—and here I stay!"

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

Next, an army being raised, according to these unhallowed resolutions, and the Lord putting remarkable discountenance upon them in their attemptings at home, as was manifest in their attemptings at Torwood, &c.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander