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• v  look with disfavor on
  The republic soon discountenanced its few friends
• v  show disapproval by discouraging
  any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced

• With affability, not anger, does he discountenance the evildoer.
• Fairfax skilled to discountenance indignities, replied: "I am standing here on my two feetand here I stay!" His white colleagues murmured sympathetically; and dumbfounded .
• They did not, as was generally reported, decide to discountenance Loucheur's efforts at an agreement with Britain.