countenance
noun
appearance, especially the look or expression of the face.
had countenanced
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past perfectof countenance.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The commissioner had countenanced Garrett's conduct, even when warned by onetime Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller; the commissioner had obtained Garrett's fraudulent pension for him.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was one offence; and another, that he had countenanced Lord Cloncurry, who, being a member of the Association, was unworthy to receive the King’s representative and the Chancellor.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Henry Reeve
It was necessary for Lord Ellenborough, by a frank declaration of his intentions, to exclude the prevalent suspicion—nay, the universal belief—of those projects of encroachment which the Whig Government had countenanced.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various
The Indulgence had failed, as by some at least of those who had countenanced it it had been expected to fail.
From Claverhouse by Mowbray Morris
If the Khalif, he says, had countenanced any such, he would have been torn to pieces.
From Christianity and Islam in Spain (756-1031) by Charles Reginald Haines
