The really pious characters amongst the Mussulmauns declare that they discountenance superstition in every way; but they strictly adhere to every habit or custom on record which was the practice of Mahumud and his family, the Emaums.
Some of Luther’s Practical Principles of Life We find in Luther no dearth of strong expressions which, like his advice to Weller and Schlaginhaufen, seem to discountenance fear of sin, penance and any striving after virtue.
They were assured, however, that the Japanese would no longer discountenance it.
However, the main point is in brief this: that your most illustrious Senate give as their reply, that the form which we have hitherto employed is agreeable to the word of God; in the next place, that it discountenance innovation.
And yet I am confident that there is no person of sound mind, and unbiassed disposition, who would discountenance the employment of it.
She had made up her mind to discountenance the heathen habits into which everybody on the ranch had fallen.
At present I don't know how to Govern myself as to the Book Trade, but am willing to do the Needful to Discountenance him, and will write you again in little Time.
Could you propose any Scheem to discountenance our Common Enemy I will Gladly Joyn you.
He wished to discountenance the land-jobbers and "roaming speculators," who were disquieting the Indians, and to encourage the useful citizen.
Furthermore, we will quietly but firmly discountenance among the students any methods not strictly honorable.
As an Association they are pledged to discountenance just what I did.
Among the Arabs the custom was so inveterate that as late as our sixth century, Mohammed felt called upon, in various parts of the Koran, to discountenance it.
The missionaries, Haddon was informed, "discountenance the native custom of the women proposing to the men, although there is not the least objection to it from a moral or social point of view; quite the reverse.
Everything that we know of Shakespeare seems to discountenance the probability of his having any such intention.
In our opinion criticism can have no more imperative duty than to discountenance and discourage in every way such projectors as Mr. Kearley Wright and such poets as those for whose merits he and critics like him stand sponsors.
Jusserand or to say anything which can cause him annoyance, but it is no more than simple duty in any critic with a becoming sense of responsibility to discountenance in every way the production of such books as these.
By these means the discountenance might be hoped to raise difficulties so high as to throw it [out], and leave His Majesty at perfect liberty to choose whether he will change them or not.
An easier way of changing his Government would be by taking some opportunity of doing it, when, in the progress of it, it shall have received more discountenance than hitherto.
And all this is done to discountenance inquiry, to bring odium upon his colleagues for doing their duty, and to prevent that inquiry which could alone clear his character.
Be careful to discountenance in children anything that looks like rage and furious anger.
I say, my lords, we have got beyond that point; and the people should be made to understand that the legislature and the government look on those institutions only with disfavour, and are determined to discountenance them.
Curtis, and the dismissal of the lord lieutenant--facts which seemed to discountenance all hope.
Even those very Magistrates who abet the Stage, discountenance the Players.
Tis possible the Poet might contrive these Pesants Offensive to discountenance the Practise.
Otis (the most popular man in Boston), at a town meeting held to discountenance riot, delivered a speech in which he recommended caution, and advised that no opposition should be made to the new duties.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discountenance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
