Harvey rightly discountenanced the ancient idea of direct anastomoses between the mouths of veins and the mouths of arteries, as opposed to fine and multiplied communications.
And, it being a project, dear madam, a kind one, of your own forming, I have no fear that it should be discountenanced by you.
Had Captain Snowdon learned if the Jesuits discountenanced any of the odious native customs such as the burning of widows--the throwing of infants into the sacred river of Ganges?
Friend, I came hither with the full intention of administering a rebuke to Pritchard--of openly letting it be understood that we discountenanced him.
The day was Friday, and he would preach on Sunday and state his views in respect of Pritchard and his following, so that it should be known that he discountenanced their acts.
The squire has discountenanced the killing of any hawks in his neighbourhood, but gives a liberal bounty for all that are brought him alive; so that the Hall is well stocked with all kinds of birds of prey.
He was of a Sanguine constitution, which beautified his Face with a pleasant Ruddinesse, but of so Grave and serious an aspect, that it Awed and Discountenanced the smiling Attracts of that complexion.
Robespierre had from the first discountenanced the fantastic caprices of some too excitable allies.
How came Robespierre to assent in March to a violence which he had angrilydiscountenanced in February?
Departures from the recognized order and discipline of the Church should therefore be discountenanced and discouraged.
Gambling under its true name is forbidden by law, and is discountenanced by the self-respecting {409} elements of society.
His minion will be discountenanced with the master, and thine opportunity is made.
Say, be these Israel, or Gamaliel who discountenancedthe persecution?
Up to 1824, she was accused of sinister and selfish designs, because she discountenanced the progress of this policy.
Almost all the common people were engaged in these practices; the gentry connived at them, and the officers of the revenue were frequently discountenanced in the exercise of their duty by those who should have protected them.
However, Luwuh, who lived in the eighth century, discountenanced the strange mixture we have just referred to.
The old Bamboo-cutter was an admirable soul, and mildly discountenanced his daughter's extraordinary behaviour.
For this last reason the marriage of a twice-born man with a Sudra woman is altogether discountenanced by some of the later law books.
The laws uniformly discountenanced revenge, retaliation, the punishment of one crime by another, and permitted capital punishment only in the last resort and in ultimate default of every other form of redress.
Up to 1824 she was accused of sinister and selfish designs, because she discountenanced the progress of this policy.
He discountenanced the measures which led to the Hartford Convention, and he helped to keep New Hampshire out of that movement; but it is an entire mistake to represent him as an independent Federalist at this period.
The Choctaw mingoes unanimously and utterly discountenanced his designs, and at the last council threatened to put him to death if he did not leave their nation.
Remarriage after widowhood is in practice almost unknown; and divorce is so discountenanced that its relief is seldom sought.
D--n me, if he have not eternally undone himself in court, and discountenanced us that were his main countenance, by it.
Free discussion of theological questions, when conducted with earnestness and reverence, and within certain generally acknowledged limits, was never discountenanced in New England.
But these acts of persecution came to be more and more discountenancedby public opinion until at length they ceased.
An amelioration of the criminal code was discountenanced because a search in the parish register of an obscure village proved that the proposer had not been born in wedlock.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discountenanced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
