Discountenanced is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISCOUNTENANCED in dictionary:

VERB:
• DISCOUNTENANCE, to abash; to discourage
• refuse to approve of
• disturb the composure of
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• abash, disconcert

Words related to DISCOUNTENANCED

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How to use DISCOUNTENANCED in a sentence

• Hilda trembled, and even the splendid and ever-resurgent George Cannon was discountenanced.
• Nor was it only the old stiffness and formality, which had been compatible with the grossest license, that was now discountenanced.
• Luke and are discountenanced by the other Evangelists.
• This species of traffic, instead of being upheld, ought to be discountenanced by the Government and the people.
• He discountenanced the idea of the Indians taking part in our wars.
• He also discountenanced prejudice, both in the church and in the social circle.
• Under the authority of such instructions, slavery falls discountenanced, condemned, abhorred.
• Buchanan was fatal to the project, which he discountenanced as a vague and wild dream.
• His scheme had been condemned by the learned as idle and visionary, and discountenanced by people of all ranks.
• Impurity before marriage was strongly discountenanced in both sexes.
• Poignand, but he rather discountenanced the idea, observing that he saw no necessity for it, and that he supposed Dr.
• He will be rejected by his old friends and associates, and discountenanced by his new ones.
• Most of them passed by, however, with averted eyes and a discountenanced expression, feeling, I am sure, that I had put her up to it.
• It is a further argument for this independence that he taught the worship of Vishnu only and not of Râdhâ and discountenanced the use of images.
• For the present also the boycott is being discountenanced in the same quarters, though Mr.
• Apart, however, from any such deliberate unfairness, the communication of speeches in advance to the Press should be strenuously discountenanced.
• Gaines and Truscomb had both discountenanced the erection of a special building for what was, after all, only a tentative enterprise.
• Others think, that he only discountenanced the eating of raw flesh, which before had been usual.
• But he also discountenanced and condemned any lawless violence or fraud.
• Lady Richard discountenanced all speculation and all questionings.
• Greek, a study discountenanced by the Church, which looked on it as dangerous and tending to freethought and heresy, took possession of him.
• A Man that has past his Time in the World, has often seen Vice triumphant, and Virtue discountenanced.
• He absolutely discountenanced the extreme section of his followers.
• But these acts of persecution came to be more and more discountenanced by public opinion until at length they ceased.
• They discountenanced, and, it is hoped, forever abolished, the dangerous and unconstitutional practice of removing military officers for their votes in Parliament.
• In this case, therefore, it was not the man that was to be punished, nor his faults that were to be discountenanced.
• Baffled, discountenanced, subdued, discredited, as the cause of justice and humanity is, it will be only the dearer to me.
• Kelly, being discountenanced by the Doctor, betook himself to the meanest practices of magic, in all which money and the works of the devil appear to have been his chief aim.

Similar words containing COUNTENANC without suffix ed and without prefix dis

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