I wish, however, that in some future publication of yours, you would set a discountenancing mark upon them.
Is it discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that the Union can in any event be abandoned, to affirm explicitly and without qualification, that every State has a right at its own discretion to secede from the Union?
Without absolutely discountenancing such important works, it is not necessary to say more of them than that they rather belong to the divinity school, and fall under the idea of Lectures, than have a claim to be viewed as University Sermons.
Patronage would have been resented hotly, and Kate learned by a series of discountenancing experiences that friendship would not come--any more than love--at beck and call.
But all that would not keep him from openly discountenancing her judgment before people.
He had the effect of shutting his wife out of the conversation; of definitely snubbing and discountenancing her.
If I had thought so much of myself as the discountenancing of me had been a sinful neglect (whereas I know there is little ground for the contrary), I should have spoken to your Lordship myself.
I fear that ye must remove; your new hireling will not bear your discountenancing of him, for the prelate is afraid that Christ get you; and that he hath no will to.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discountenancing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
