| 单词 | discountenancing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdiˈscountenancing diˈscountenancing n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disfavour > [noun] > action of dishonouring1525 disgracement1561 discountenancing1574 disgrace1581 disgracing1582 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job xxxvi. 167/1 Let vs not thinke that God laugheth at vs: but lette vs rather too consider that his discountenauncing of the matter is for nothing else but to exercise vs. 1667 J. Locke Ess. Toleration in H. R. F. Bourne Life J. Locke (1876) I. iv. 189 The discountenancing of popery amongst us. 1793 Universal Mag. June 407/2 The discountenancing of ancestry..is so far from a proof of our being wiser than formerly, that [etc.]. 1875 Canad. Methodist Mag. Nov. 420 The discountenancing of every press or person that should advocate the hateful cause of the Dissenters. 2004 T. Andersson in B. Murdoch & M. Read Early Germanic Lit. & Culture 192 Bandamanna saga relates the discountenancing at law of eight chieftains by a sly old man with a sardonic view of human nature. < as lemmas |
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