Defenition of the word discountenance

• Defenition of the word discountenance

  • show disapproval by discouraging
  • look with disfavor on; "The republic soon discountenanced its few friends"
  • show disapproval by discouraging; "any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced"
  • look with disfavor on

Hypernyms for the word discountenance

• • disapprove
  • shame

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