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Definition of Countenancers
1. countenancer [n] - See also: countenancer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Countenancers
Literary usage of Countenancers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... or countenancers of debauchery and disorders ! And you will hereby be as
laborers in that work [of keeping them up]. And a man may tell as plainly as ..."
2. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641 by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1888)
"... and to make them the countenancers of treason, enough to have dissolved all
the bawh and sinews of confidence between his majesty and his Parliament, ..."
3. European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its by Frances Gardiner Davenport, Charles Oscar Paullin (1917)
"... from which all heretical princes or countenancers of heresy should be excluded,
and, if necessary, opposed with arms ; the Cardinal of Bourbon should, ..."
4. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... and to make them the countenancers of treason, enough to have dissolved all
the bands and sinews of confidence between his majesty and his parliament, ..."
5. The Christian Examiner (1847)
"We meet men in other relations and capacities than as the inflict- ers and
countenancers of slavery, and must treat them according to the claims of all ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1839)
"... yet this is the most that can be allowed to the countenancers of the doctrine.
For after all, the testimony of numerous facts, furnishes clear, ..."
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