discountenance

Charles certainly always did discountenance schemes of assassination; we shall see a later example.

Some people discountenance communication upon the ground that it is hindering the advance of the departed.

The interests of the French crown, endangered at this moment, are to discountenance rebellion in a neighboring nation.

But don't let that discountenance you.

Every opportunity, therefore, should be taken to discountenance that false and vulgar opinion that rules are the fetters of genius.

Sir, let not this discountenance or disgallant you a whit; you must not sink under the first disaster.

Collier writes in the introduction: "The business of plays is to recommend Vertue, and discountenance Vice" (Collier 1).

Famed for her beauty and open-minded conduct, she becomes the jewel of Zagrebian aristocracy, but her popularity among men causes strong discountenance among envious women who see her as a threat.

He was not an amiable man, being, on the contrary, proud, overbearing, and gloomy; but he and the Spanish lords who came over with him, assuredly did discountenance the idea of doing any violence to the Princess.

This right has been frequently exercised by his Majesty's subjects within the realm; and, we do not recollect an instance, since the happy revolution, when the two Houses of Parliament have been called upon to discountenance, or bear their testimony against it, in a speech from the throne.

(Scott's book was burned by James I.) Many intellectuals shared the sceptical attitude of Montaigne: 'It is rating our conjectures highly to roast people alive for them'; and even in the worst affected areas the judicial authorities were eventually persuaded to discountenance torture.

The Turkish officials pretended to discountenance slavery; at the same time every house in Khartoum was full of slaves, and the Egyptian officers had been in the habit of receiving a portion of their pay in slaves, precisely as the men employed on tile White Nile were paid by their employers.