Definitions for discountenance

discountenance dis·coun·te·nance

Spelling: [dis-koun-tn-uh ns]
IPA: /dɪsˈkaʊn tn əns/

Discountenance is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 1766 anagrams from letters in discountenance (accdeeinnnostu).

Definitions for discountenance

verb (used with object)

  1. to disconcert, embarrass, or abash:
  2. to show disapproval of:

noun

  1. disapproval; disapprobation.

Origin of discountenance

First recorded in 1570-80; dis-1 + countenance

Examples for discountenance

Let them in their several stations encourage virtue and discountenance vice in others.

He has stationed himself there merely to watch and discountenance her.

Her approbation was olive oil; her discountenance prickly heat.

He would not allow stone-flinging, because it was a habit of his to discountenance it.

If unhappily thrown among them, discountenance them to the utmost.

I discountenance and disapprove of any and all such practices.

As an Association they are pledged to discountenance just what I did.

It was absolutely necessary to discountenance these personal applications.

All citizens are urged to discountenance the building of fires.

Nor does He discountenance earnest activity in the duties of the present.

Word Value for discountenance
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Words with friends

25

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