How often hath it been confessed to God, as the predominant public sin of Scotland, countenancing and employing the malignant party?
They have fallen into the common error of enthusiasts--that of exaggerating their object, of feeling as if no evil existed but that which they opposed, and as if no guilt could be compared with that of countenancing or upholding it.
They have fallen into the common error of enthusiasts, that of exaggerating their object, of feeling as if no evil existed but that which they opposed, and as if no guilt could be compared with that of countenancing and upholding it.
These momentous words in the aid of higher destinies were addressed to the Volksraad, and there was no more countenancing the idea of digging for gold.
Thou art also here indicted for countenancing the King's enemies, after wholesome laws made to the contrary: for, 1.
Parliament passes an Act (1775) to punish the Colonies for countenancing Massachusetts.
She took a Pleasure in countenancing Merit, and certainly such as yours would have engag'd her Favour.
Where one member of a heathen family had become a Christian, he would at once be confronted with the question, rising in his own conscience, whether by partaking of such food he might not be countenancing idolatry.
Others, again, could not shake off the feeling that they were countenancing idolatry when they partook of such feasts.
Of course no one can be justified in countenancing what 'he is verily persuaded is sinful.
There is something inexpressibly mean in a man countenancing the persecution of his fellow creatures for heterodoxy, while he himself secretly held opinions more heterodox than any of those whom he helped to persecute.
He might have it cast in his teeth that he was either committing or countenancing the sacrilegious hypocrisy, the base and shuffling trick, of communicating only to qualify for office.
None of them would have done it, and Mr. Bewicke was put down as mad for countenancing such an action.
The next morning Napoleon heard of the occurrence, and severely reprimanded those of his suite who had attended the party, dwelling with great warmth upon the impropriety of countenancing vice in high places.
On the one hand it was urged, that, as the head of the State, his Holiness could never think of countenancing the kidnapping of a child, and the detaining him from his natural friends.
As for you, gentlemen (added he, to the soldiers), I wish the Lord may pardon your countenancing this man in his business.
We have in the scriptures many promises of the Lord's approving and countenancing the duty of defensive arms, even against their oppressing rulers.
The same argument will militate against countenancing the indulged, or any that obtained authority to preach in any place by a power encroaching on the churches liberties.
Some promises both of spiriting for the duty, and of countenancing it, when undertaken.
In the House it was charged by one side that the measure was dictated by France, and by the other, that it originated in the fear of countenancing Negro insurrection.
James not only ceased to express commiseration for the sufferers, but declared that he believed them to harbour the worst designs, and owned that he had been guilty of an error in countenancing them.
He had read Maximilian grave lectures on his conduct in countenancingthe schismatic conciliabulum assembled by Louis at Pisa.
He was charged with countenancing superstition by allowing the use of pagan rites, and with encouraging schism and dissension by permitting no intermingling between the Brahmins and the pariahs even in the churches.
There was no longer any possibility of suggesting limitations or of countenancing rebellion.
The dissoluteness of the stage was in part attributable to the Puritan spirit which kept the soberer members of the community from countenancing the theatre by their presence, and deterred some from entering the dramatic profession.
It may at first seem strange, to see a charge of error advanced against those who made the countenancing of error in the judicatories of the established church, one principal ground of their secession therefrom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "countenancing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
