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
Dr. Fairfax skilled to discountenance indignities, replied: "I am standing here on my two feet—and here I stay!"
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
With affability, not anger, does he discountenance the evildoer.
From Time Magazine Archive
One would be tempted to talk too much here—to discountenance the performance.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
