countenance
noun
appearance, especially the look or expression of the face.
had been countenancing
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past perfect progressiveof countenance.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The discovery that leading members of the Cabinet had been countenancing methods as reprehensible as those of the worst of their opponents, caused an uproar.
From A History of the Third French Republic by C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad) Wright
