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Definition of Discountenances
1. discountenance [v] - See also: discountenance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discountenances
Literary usage of Discountenances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of A.N. Welby Pugin, and His Father, Augustus Pugin: With by Benjamin Ferrey, Edmund Sheridan Purcell (1861)
"... discountenances the practice of despoiling Ancient Ruins — Meets distinguished
Travellers — Lord Elgin at Kenilworth Castle — Unsatisfactory character ..."
2. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... aggravation) by a succession of discountenances mutually performed between
them to that time. Sir Henry Vane had not far to look back to the time that ..."
3. A History of the Sikhs: From the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the by Joseph Davey Cunningham (1853)
"... extends the reformation to the south, and further discountenances celibacy,
about 1550 AD ... discountenances ..."
4. "Tell it All": the Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism: An Autobiography by T. B. H. Stenhouse (1878)
"... of the Prophet's Wives " Speaks "—Another Wife Interprets—I Receive a
Blessing—Brother Young discountenances the "Gift"—Only half Convinced—"To Doubt is ..."
5. Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (1888)
"Though one of the most radical on the peace question, however, lie was thoroughly
consistent, and, having decided that Christianity not only discountenances ..."
6. Pickle the Spy; Or, The Incognito of Prince Charles: Or, The Incognito of by Andrew Lang (1897)
"The theory contradicted—Mischievous glee of Frederick—Charles discountenances
plots to kill Cumberland—Father Myles Macdonnell to James—London conspiracy— ..."
7. Life of the Marquis of Dalhousie by Lionel James Trotter (1889)
"... system and broad gauge—He discountenances the atmospheric principle—Establishment
of the telegraph—Its use during the Crimean War and the Mutiny—. ..."
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