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to make someone ashamed through disapproval
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"
refusal to accept as right or desirablemade known his long-standing discountenance of any form of religious belief
to hold an unfavorable opinion ofa social philosopher who discountenanced all programs for helping the needy, claiming that society should encourage survival of the fittest
to throw into a state of self-conscious distressthe political party was discountenanced by the actions of a few of its overly zealous members
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