discountenance
12 05 2008Verbs
1. (verb) discountenance;
- look with disfavor on;
- “The republic soon discountenanced its few friends”;
2. (verb) discountenance;
- show disapproval by discouraging;
- “any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced”;
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