Definition of Countenanced

1. Verb. (past of countenance) ¹

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Definition of Countenanced

1. countenance [v] - See also: countenance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Countenanced

countable additivity
countable noun
countable nouns
countable set
countably
countably additive
countably infinite
countback
countbacks
countdown
countdowns
counted
counted angels on pinheads
counted coup
countenance
countenanced (current term)
countenancer
countenancers
countenances
countenancing
countenaunce
counter
counter-
counter-attack
counter-attacked
counter-attacking
counter-attacks
counter-clockwise
counter-couchant
counter-countermeasure

Literary usage of Countenanced

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... who shared with Gratian the honours of the con- applause of their parasites, they easily imposed on the credulity of the vulgar,- and were countenanced, ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1847)
"I am of opinion, therefore, that the motion must be refused ; but as it seems to have been in some degree countenanced by the Vice-Chancellor ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"... and never coming into the country, would be an anomaly, a mere fiction of law, nnd is not to be countenanced where not expressed in acta of Congress, ..."

4. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1866)
"neighboring kingdom, countenanced the pretensions of Dom Miguel to the Portuguese crown, and supported the efforts of his partisans to overthrow the regency ..."

5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... are you all aware of what you are going to do ? you ou^hl to think whether the assassination of minister* will be countenanced by your country. ..."

6. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"I. Resolved, That whosoever, directly or indirectly, abetted, or in any way, form or manner, countenanced the unchartered and dangerous invasion of our ..."

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