discountenance

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To have an unfavorable opinion of; to deprecate or disapprove of.

   “A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot.”

2. fiil To abash, embarrass or disconcert.

   “How would one look from his Majeſtick brow, / Seated as on the top of Vertues hill, / Diſcount'nance her deſpiſ'd, and put to rout / All her array, her female pride deject, / Or turn to reverent awe? […]”

3. fiil To refuse countenance or support to; to discourage.

   “These were rejected by Parliament, which discountenanced the amalgamation of competing lines but gave broad approval in theory to end-on amalgamations.”

4. isim Cold treatment; disapprobation.

   “Highly tenacious of preserving over the mind of Sir Aubrey an undisputed sway, Lady De Brooke had seen with great reluctance the ascendency his grand-daughters were acquiring, which she artfully hoped to repress by throwing discountenance on the visits of their father,[…]”