discountenancing

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

It was, of course, not difficult for him to show that the clergy had acted wisely in discountenancing an insurrection of the success of which there had never been even the most remote possibility.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by Dent, John Charles

I kept my own counsel in this matter, as I had very good reasons for discountenancing any proposal to investigate the lunar scenery too closely.

From To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story by Wicks, Mark

I must beg, therefore, that, if the rumor be true, you use all practicable means, even to the use of your parental authority, in discountenancing and forbidding such intimacy.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various