discountenance

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dɪsˈkaʊntənəns/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Cold treatment; disapprobation. uncountable
    — Highly tenacious of preserving over the mind of Sir Aubrey an undisputed sway, Lady De Brooke had seen with great reluctance the ascendency his grand-daughters were acquiring, which she artfully hoped to repress by throwing discountenance on the visits of their father,[…]
动词 v.
  1. To have an unfavorable opinion of; to deprecate or disapprove of. transitive
    — A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot.
  2. To abash, embarrass or disconcert. transitive
    — How would one look from his Majeſtick brow, / Seated as on the top of Vertues hill, / Diſcount'nance her deſpiſ'd, and put to rout / All her array, her female pride deject, / Or turn to reverent awe? […]
  3. To refuse countenance or support to; to discourage. transitive
    — These were rejected by Parliament, which discountenanced the amalgamation of competing lines but gave broad approval in theory to end-on amalgamations.

词形变化

discountenances present,singular,third-person discountenancing participle,present discountenanced participle,past discountenanced past

词汇关系

衍生词
discountenancer

词源

词源 1
From Middle French descontenancer (compare French décontenancer).
词源 2
From Middle French descontenancer (compare French décontenancer).
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