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单词 to keep in countenance
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to keep (a person) in countenance
c. to keep (a person) in countenance: to keep him from being abashed or disconcerted; now often involving the notion of encouragement by show of favour or support (cf. 8); to countenance v. So to put in countenance.
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the mind > emotion > pride > proper pride or self-respect > imbue with proper pride or self-respect [verb (transitive)] > specifically by freeing from shyness
to keep (a person) in countenance1598
effront1643
to put on a good (also bold, brave) face1704
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 613 And now forward, for we haue put thee in countenance. View more context for this quotation
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xvii. sig. Gg7v It does not only keep impertinent Fools in countenance, but encourages them to be very troublesome to wise Men.
1716 J. Addison Free-Holder No. 33 It puts Learned Men in Countenance.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. iii. 63 To shut out the censuring world, and keep each other in countenance.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 504 Cornbury was soon kept in countenance by a crowd of deserters.
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