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
What the hour demanded were poets who, discountenancing any mistrust of the natural emotions, should give them free rein.
From English Poets of the Eighteenth Century by Bernbaum, Ernest
The Quaker rule of discountenancing marrying out of meeting tended to keep a large acreage in the family and to make it larger by marriage.
From The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware by Fisher, Sydney George
Three years after this pleasant event he incurred the king's wrath by discountenancing his majesty's authority over the Church.
From Sketches of the Covenanters by McFeeters, J. C.
