countenanced Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˈkaʊn.tən.əns]
  • Us [ ˈkaʊn.t̬ən.əns]

Meaning of countenanced In English

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Examples of countenanced

  • But if such complacency cannot be countenanced, that returns us to our original problem.

  • Only that which serves the people may be countenanced.

  • Alternatively, when in everyday circumstances real motion does not fit the countenanced pattern, it will usually be perceived veridically.

  • What technologies are countenanced within the musical canons and the economies of the music industry?

  • Public preference for active discrimination or persecution of minority groups, for example, should not be countenanced.

  • The case clearly illustrates a rarely countenanced aspect of the ' distributional encounters ', but does so without identifying changing symbolic boundaries.

  • Evolution would have been countenanced long before, but for the opposition from landed and clerical interests who feared its deadly threat to the divine ordering of the world.

  • Should this sceptical scenario be countenanced, it would appear that realists go beyond their epistemic rights in inferring from a theory's success, to its probable truth or verisimilitude.

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