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discountenance
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Definition:to disapprove via disfavor
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In that circle they discountenanced those who advised hurried preparations for a removal to Kazan of the court
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 10 (Book Ten) . Simon & Schuster
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‘Mrs’ was a word somewhat discountenanced by the Party— you were supposed to call everyone ‘comrade’— but with some women one used it instinctively.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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