discountenancing

Example Sentences

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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

Several bond houses wrote back, politely but firmly discountenancing the notion of preferring stocks to bonds as investments.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

And your discountenancing him will not make a particle of difference.

From Nobody's Child by Dejeans, Elizabeth

The educated women among us need to set the pace in discountenancing the social glass in their homes.

From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Culp, Daniel Wallace