Countenance means: Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face. Related words include approval or warrant. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Countenance in practice.
Countenance in a sentence
Related words
Countenance meaning
- Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.
- Favour; support; encouragement.
- Superficial appearance; show; pretense.
Synonyms of Countenance
Example sentences (20)
Aristides refused to countenance this; conversely Themistocles was not pleased that only 100 ships would be built.
He sees the prison-officers, but with that exception he never looks upon a human countenance, or hears a human voice.
Beside that transitory countenance I saw, scrawled into the frost on the surface of the ice, the word 'Deborah'.
Her distinctive heart-shaped head and imaginative countenance made her even more intimidating, despite her small size.
Satyavati adjusted well to an ascetic life as she was blessed with a good countenance, but she did not have any children.
Two more people are dead at a music festival while denialist politicians refuse to countenance pill-testing.
Fox is described by Ellwood as "graceful in countenance, manly in personage, grave in gesture, courteous in conversation".
This is a perfect description of those who countenance sexual perversion while not demanding repentance.
My Quichotte is not dolorous of countenance, but cheerful; an optimist, hopeful, believing in love.
Psychodynamic theory and therapy have evolved considerably since 1939 when Freud's bearded countenance was last sighted in earnest.
Kerenyi points out that these names are attributes of the moon, as is Europa's broad countenance.
And this is a government that refuses to even countenance a debate on the issue of wealth taxes.
You can’t go into the shack, but you can walk along the beach and try to capture its regal and rustic countenance with your own camera.
Then, there was no time to countenance holding himself back for the sake of greater longevity.
It's unlikely that the A-League bosses would be rushing to immediately countenance that question as they have yet to recoup their losses.
It does not appear to be a countenance shared by any of his players and if that doesn't change we could all be home before Wimbledon starts.
The development of the market economy involved coercion, exploitation and violence that Adam Smith's moral philosophy could not countenance.
Hippocratic face is the change produced in the countenance by death, or long sickness, excessive evacuations, excessive hunger, and the like.
As in 1936, the Church of England refused to countenance the remarriage of the divorced.
We want to think of them as family; who could countenance not viewing them in this way?
Common combinations with countenance
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to countenance 17×
- his countenance 7×
- countenance the 7×
- not countenance 6×
- countenance that 4×
- countenance was 3×
- countenance but 2×
- cannot countenance 2×
- countenance even 2×
- countenance any 2×
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About these examples
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