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countenance
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synonyms: mien, phiz, visage, cheer ???
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Definition:1. {n} a facial expression2. {v} to tolerate; to sanction
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Trying not to make a noise, they walked into the dark reading room, where under the shaded lamps there sat a young man with a wrathful countenance, turning over one journal after another, and a bald general buried in a book.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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her figure was partly enveloped in a shawl, her countenance was grave, her bearing erect.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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we took gulps of milk and water, with apologetic countenances, from a jug on the dresser.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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“We will not countenance any aggressive violence. Understand? [...]"
Ralph Ellison. The Invisible Man (1952)
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