discountenance

• As magistrates it may have been their duty to discountenance, but as county gentlemen it was their privilege to support, the noble champions of the art, especially when they had their money on the event. —  The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)
• By these means the discountenance might be hoped to raise difficulties so high as to throw it [out], and leave His Majesty at perfect liberty to choose whether he will change them or not. —  Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third.
• Private encouragement and public discountenance were alternated; but both varied according to the complexion of news from America. —  The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816
• But godly men, that keep the law, contend with, discountenance, and oppose them, as David, “I hate them that hate thee,” and earnestly contend with them. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• If this work contained one improper allusion to their ten, many of those fastidious ladies who now eagerly devour the vulgarities of Dumas, and the double-entendres of Bulwer, and even converse with gentlemen about their contents, would discountenance or condemn it as improper. —  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage

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