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discountenance
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Çeviriler
fiil
- discountenance General
- discountenanced General
- discountenances General
- discountenancing General
- freeze Colloquial
- spoil- General
- at. General
Tanımlar (İngilizce)
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fiil
To have an unfavorable opinion of; to deprecate or disapprove of.
“A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot.”
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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? […]”
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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.”
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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,[…]”