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Discountenance Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ance

Discountenance has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

Cold treatment; disapprobation.

Verb
1

look with disfavor on

"The republic soon discountenanced its few friends"

2

show disapproval by discouraging

"any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced"

3

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

See Also
unfavorable discountenancing disconcert discountenanced abash embarrass disapprove discountenancer
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
shame disapprove
Rhyming Words
nce ance ince unce ence once vince sence ponce nance munce vance dunce hence bonce ounce nonce gance dance vonce
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