Definition of Countenancing. Meaning of Countenancing. Synonyms of Countenancing

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Definition of Countenancing

Countenancing
Countenance Coun"te*nance (koun"t?-nans), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Countenanced (-nanst); p. pr. & vb. n. Countenancing.] 1. To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet. This conceit, though countenanced by learned men, is not made out either by experience or reason. --Sir T. Browne. Error supports custom, custom countenances error. --Milton. 2. To make a show of; to pretend. [Obs.] Which to these ladies love did countenance. --Spenser.

Meaning of Countenancing from wikipedia

- Countenance is a synonym for face or facial expression, but may also refer to: Look up countenance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Countenance divine...
- The divine countenance is the face of God. The concept has special significance in the Abrahamic religions. Islam considers God to be beyond ordinary...
- citing "threats to Soviet security". The invasion, code name Operation Countenance, was largely unopposed by the numerically and technologically outmatched...
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- Vast Countenance is a rock 'n' folk band from Volendam, the Netherlands, founded in 1999. Vast Countenance toured the Netherlands and the United States...
- inmates won concessions over their living conditions. Thatcher refused to countenance a return to political status for the prisoners, having declared "Crime...
- according to reports of private peace negotiations with Israel they have countenanced the return of only 10,000 refugees and their families to Israel as part...
- from me and... seemed to be disappointed in the look of [Napoleon's] countenance and said it was that of a little Italian." Farington said Napoleon's...
- a sense of the character's inner life: The Times' critic saying "The countenance which she ****umed ... when luring on Macbeth in his course of crime,...
- εὐρύς (eurús) 'wide, broad', and ὤψ (ōps, gen. ὠπός, ōpós) 'eye, face, countenance', hence their composite Eurṓpē would mean 'wide-gazing' or 'broad of...