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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
discountenance .
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Examples
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It holds that pure and honest legislators cannot spring from filth and trickery, and in subservience to this view, discountenances the unfair conduction of general elections, and favors the extension, by law, of the "Australian ballot" to the primary election of all political parties.
The Principles of the Republican Party: A Rare Unpublished Jack London Essay 2010
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Their knowledge of me is only of the hearsay type the spy discountenances.
Misinformation Myers, Howard L 2003
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Whites were "a community which discountenances the development of a just society predicated on principles of equality and fairness, but would rather there was a continuation of Rhodesian socio-economic system," he said.
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And you mistrust information which discountenances itself, by borrowing the magical robe of verse!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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The late Dr. Pegg, the antiquary, discountenances this tradition.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832 Various
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He has entirely broken off from his old habits of swearing and gambling, and discountenances them among the people.
Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage
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He forcibly and definitely discountenances the method which transfers it to the domain of religion.
At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Eberhard Dennert
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Spiritual insight is blinded by carnal desire; conduct is influenced by unbridled license; bigotry and hatred are fostered by his policy of intoleration; and his followers are enslaved by a tyranny that blights the reason, because it discountenances inquiry, and places an insurmountable barrier in the way of all human progress.
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If it discourages the extravagant hopes of a gifted parent that his children on the average will inherit all his powers, it not less discountenances extravagant fears that they will inherit all his weakness and disease.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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Fabian Society steadfastly discountenances all schemes for securing to any person or any group of persons the entire product of their labour.
British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals J. Ellis Barker 1909
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