discountenance
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Is discountenance a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To have an unfavorable opinion of; to deprecate or disapprove of.Examples: "A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot."; "So far from friendship being an institution whose value is recognised and understood, it is at best scantily acknowledged, and is often actually discountenanced and misunderstood."; "Mr Macgregor stiffened at the word 'nigger', which is discountenanced in India."transitive
2. (transitive) To abash, embarrass or disconcert.Examples: "How would one look from his Majeſtick brow, / Seated as on the top of Vertues hill, / Diſcount'nance her deſpiſ'd, and put to rout / All her array, her female pride deject, / Or turn to reverent awe? […]"; "The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation."transitive
3. (transitive) To refuse countenance or support to; to discourage.Examples: "These were rejected by Parliament, which discountenanced the amalgamation of competing lines but gave broad approval in theory to end-on amalgamations."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary