Associations to the word «Discountenance»

Wiktionary

DISCOUNTENANCE, verb. To have an unfavorable opinion of; to deprecate or disapprove of.
DISCOUNTENANCE, verb. To abash, embarrass or disconcert.

Dictionary definition

DISCOUNTENANCE, verb. Look with disfavor on; "The republic soon discountenanced its few friends".
DISCOUNTENANCE, verb. Show disapproval by discouraging; "any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin