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
They did not, as was generally reported, decide to discountenance Loucheur's efforts at an agreement with Britain.
From Time Magazine Archive
American principles of fair play discountenance attempts to condemn a person by compelling him to disclose his own transgressions.
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Dr. Fairfax skilled to discountenance indignities, replied: "I am standing here on my two feet—and here I stay!"
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Yet Winthrop took care not to rebuke the Constable in public lest he “discourage and discountenance an honest officer.”
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse
The same ship that carried discountenanced Warlord Chang Hsueh-liang and his 17 "secretaries" from Shanghai last week also bore Benito Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister to China, going home for a vacation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most charitable view of the matter is that Mr. Curtis, having discovered how his name was being used, discountenanced his henchmen.
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When deprived of the regular Democratic nomination, he had firmly discountenanced a "McKee Anyway" movement.
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The Board through its business conduct committee, has always discountenanced bear raids and manipulations of prices, and it again instructs that commit tee to take particularly vigorous measures to prevent such activities.
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Ann had formed a mad project of living in Paris as a single woman, which William justly discountenanced.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose
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
She was discountenancing this remedy, or any remedy, as needless, in an unconvincingly weak voice.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
Dear Brother, I like your ballad, and think it well adapted for your purpose of discountenancing expensive foppery, and encouraging industry and frugality.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.
The length to which he dared go in discountenancing any restriction, even regarding his moral ideas, is illustrated in an incident related in his autobiography.*
From The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 by Linn, William Alexander
