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uncountenanced

  • a word derived from countenance.
    countenance
    noun
    appearance, especially the look or expression of the face.

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That they rarely purchase friends, thou didst soon discover, when thou wert left to stand thy trial uncountenanced and alone.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson

In this the uncountenanced fortunes of the expedition were again seen.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt

No nation, however, is compromised by any act of her citizens acting as separate and uncountenanced individuals.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg

It was on Isabel's invitation she had come, and she imparted all due dignity to the girl's uncountenanced state.

From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by Henry James

The existence of such matter is, as we have shown, altogether uncountenanced either by consciousness or belief.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various