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* Armenian: {{t-|hy|դեմք|tr=demk’}}, {{t-|hy|դեմքի արտահայտություն|tr=demk’i artahaytut’yun}} |
* Armenian: {{t-|hy|դեմք|tr=demk’}}, {{t-|hy|դեմքի արտահայտություն|tr=demk’i artahaytut’yun}} |
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* Bulgarian: {{t-|bg|изражение на лицето}} |
* Bulgarian: {{t-|bg|изражение на лицето}} |
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* Chinese: |
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*: Mandarin: {{t|zh|面容|sc=Hani}} |
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* Czech: {{t+|cs|výraz|m}} |
* Czech: {{t+|cs|výraz|m}} |
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* Danish: {{t+|da|ansigt|n}}, {{t-|da|mine|c}} |
* Danish: {{t+|da|ansigt|n}}, {{t-|da|mine|c}} |
Revision as of 11:27, 18 October 2012
English
Alternative forms
- countenaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) contineō.
Pronunciation
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Noun
countenance (plural countenances)
- Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.
- Template:RQ:Authorized Version, Genesis 4:5
- But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
- Template:RQ:Authorized Version, Genesis 4:5
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:countenance
Translations
face
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Verb
countenance (third-person singular simple present countenanc, present participle ing, simple past and past participle countenanced)
- Template:transitive To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.
- The cruel punishment was countenanced by the government, although it was not officially legal.
- 1925, Franz Kafka, The Trial, Vintage Books (London), pg. 99:
- For the Defence was not actually countenanced by the Law, but only tolerated, and there were differences of opinion even on that point, whether the Law could be interpreted to admit such tolerances at all.
Synonyms
Translations
tolerate, support, sanction
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References
- “countenance”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “countenance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anglo-Norman
Alternative forms
Noun
- appearance; countenance
- e moustre par contenance q'il ad honte de ceo q'il ad fet
- And he showed by his appearance that he was ashamed of what he had done.
- e moustre par contenance q'il ad honte de ceo q'il ad fet