[Sidenote: Jefferson's principles] [Sidenote: Third term discountenanced] ❋ Edwin Emerson (1914)
The next day Wickliffe dashed off another letter to Polk with the news, through Sherman, that Jones had indeed discountenanced the plan. ❋ Robert W. Merry (2009)
As Fowler said: “It is an idiom that should be not discountenanced, but used when it comes natural.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
Some international observers were refused entry and their reports discountenanced by our electoral authorities, yet Nigerians went to Ghana to monitor elections! ❋ Unknown (2009)
(‘Mrs’ was a word somewhat discountenanced by the Party — you were supposed to call everyone ‘comrade’ — but with some women one used it instinctively.) ❋ Unknown (2008)
Future alliances were indeed often formed by the young people, nor was this discountenanced by their parents, provided that the lovers waited until the period when the majority of the bridegroom should permit them to marry. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The subjective form is probably reinforced because when the element is subject of the following verb, as opposed to object as in your example, there is no real issue - It was her who did it would be generally discountenanced in standard English. ❋ DC (2008)
I am wounded to the core and left half-dead of disgrace, discountenanced by trenchant lies. ❋ Young Geoffrion (2008)
Sir Hugh was discountenanced from any further inquiry. ❋ Unknown (2008)
These pleas, he said, are seldom used; and are always discountenanced by the Court, which having lately acquired a more liberal Cast begin to have some faint Idea that the end of Suits at Law is to Investigate the Merits of the Cause, and not to entangle in the Nets of technical Terms.83 ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)
The writer had observed, with feelings of the utmost pain and regret, that some years ago a sudden and unaccountable change in the public taste took place with reference to itinerant bears, who, being discountenanced by the populace, gradually fell off one by one from the streets of the metropolis, until not one remained to create a taste for natural history in the breasts of the poor and uninstructed. ❋ Unknown (2007)
During the whole time consumed in the slow growth of this family tree, the house of Smallweed, always early to go out and late to marry, has strengthened itself in its practical character, has discarded all amusements, discountenanced all story – books, fairy – tales, fictions, and fables, and banished all levities whatsoever. ❋ Unknown (2007)
As to pushing the study of astronomy so far as to include a knowledge of the movements of bodies outside our own orbit, whether planets or stars of eccentric movement,648 or wearing oneself out endeavouring to discover their distances from the earth, their periods, and their causes,649 all this he strongly discountenanced; for he saw (he said) no advantage in these any more than in the former studies. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I am here to tell you, indeed to goodness, that, allbe I discountenanced beallpersuasions, in rinunciniation of pomps of heretofore, with a wax too held in hand, I am thorgt-fulldt to do dope me of her miscisprinks and by virchow of those filthered Ovocnas presently like Browne umbracing Christina ❋ Unknown (2006)
