countenance
IPA: kˈaʊntʌnʌns
noun
- Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.
- Favour; support; encouragement.
- (obsolete) Superficial appearance; show; pretense.
- Calm facial expression, composure, self-control.
verb
- (transitive) To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.
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Examples of "countenance" in Sentences
- The divine countenance is the face of God.
- A knight of the rueful countenance is here in Dublin.
- By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.
- Russia declined to countenance the negotiations in any way.
- In person Boyle was tall, slender and of a pale countenance.
- How desirable her nose and all the radiance of her countenance.
- Sometimes, not always, the countenance is the index of the mind.
- At the end of the song, all three have a more relaxed countenance.
- He is of white complexion, middle aged and of agreeable countenance.
- The countenance was beautiful and when a vein was opened blood flowed.
- The combination of countenance and opposition within discussion create balance.
- Members found this theatre many some-more engaging in countenance of feeling than progressing scenes.
- 'I do not doubt it,' replied the other, your countenance is a letter of recommendation to every heart. '
- He went out and returned, wan of face, changed in countenance and with his side-muscles a-quivering; so I asked him, ‘What aileth thee?’
- What he most certainly refuses to countenance is a way out of the genetic deadlock and instead he embraces the endless loop of historical repetition.
- Your countenance, Miss Lake -- you must pardon my frankness, it is my way -- _your countenance_ tells only too plainly that you now comprehend my allusion. '
- Why is this that Baldêo should be always represented of this countenance and colour, and his brother Krishna, either white, or of an azure colour, and the _Caucasian countenance_? [
- Would McCain countenance the British PM meeting with Ahmadinejad, while excoriating Obama for having expressed a view that he would meet with someone like Ahmadinejad without preconditions??
- When Moses says, "his countenance fell," (the word countenance is in Hebrew put in the plural number for the singular,) he means, that not only was he seized with a sudden vehement anger, but that, from a lingering sadness, he cherished a feeling so malignant that he was wasting with envy.