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Definition of Countenanced
1. countenance [v] - See also: countenance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Countenanced
Literary usage of Countenanced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... who shared with Gratian the honours of the con- applause of their parasites,
they easily imposed on the credulity of the vulgar,- and were countenanced, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1847)
"I am of opinion, therefore, that the motion must be refused ; but as it seems to
have been in some degree countenanced by the Vice-Chancellor ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"... and never coming into the country, would be an anomaly, a mere fiction of law,
nnd is not to be countenanced where not expressed in acta of Congress, ..."
4. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1866)
"neighboring kingdom, countenanced the pretensions of Dom Miguel to the Portuguese
crown, and supported the efforts of his partisans to overthrow the regency ..."
5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... are you all aware of what you are going to do ? you ou^hl to think whether
the assassination of minister* will be countenanced by your country. ..."
6. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"I. Resolved, That whosoever, directly or indirectly, abetted, or in any way, form
or manner, countenanced the unchartered and dangerous invasion of our ..."
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