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Definition of Countenancing
1. countenance [v] - See also: countenance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Countenancing
Literary usage of Countenancing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"... by countenancing a sober and orthodox ministry, to permit no councils of
officers, and to model and put the army into the hands of the qualified ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"... from countenancing any doubts respecting the validity of that species of
corporate constitution \vhich has for so long a period of time subsisted in a ..."
3. The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (1859)
"... unnecessarily discovering of infirmities™; raising false rumours", receiving
and countenancing evil reports", and stopping our ears against just ..."
4. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1866)
"The hostile aggression of Spain, in countenancing and aiding the party acquisition,
either by the United ..."
5. The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: With a Selection from Her by Fanny Burney (1889)
"... make his son a man wholly unprincipled ; inculcating immorality, countenancing
all gentleman-like vices, advising deceit and exhorting to inconstancy. ..."
6. The Metropolitan (1839)
"... yet I warn the Greeks to be cautious in countenancing foreign interference
hereafter—I tell them to beware, lest, after having opposed and destroyed the ..."
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