countenancers

Men find out, and as it were create, things to be mere supporters, countenancers, and nourishers of vanity.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Their government, he observed, were great countenancers of the manufacturers at Abbeville; and he would have reason, if he were laid hold of, to think himself happy, if he came off with being obliged to perform his promises.

The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) Samuel Richardson 1725

And everywhere in fact the stamps were disposed of -- disposed of by mobs, with the tacit consent and impalpable encouragement of many men who, having a reputable position to maintain, would themselves by no means endure to be seen in a common crowd; men of good estate whom no one could think of as countenancers of violence, but who were, on this occasion, as Mr. Livingston said, "not averse to a little rioting" on condition that it be kept within bounds and well directed to the attainment of their just rights.

The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England Carl Lotus Becker 1909