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discountenance

DEFINITIONS OF: discountenance

1

v look with disfavor on

“The republic soon discountenanced its few friends”
Type of:
shame
cause to be ashamed

v show disapproval by discouraging

“any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced”
Type of:
disapprove
consider bad or wrong
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