Countenance vs Agree - What's the difference?
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Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.
* , Genesis 4:5
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.}}
Favour; support; encouragement.
* (Bible), (Psalms) xxi. 6
* (Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)
(label) Superficial appearance; show; pretense.
* (Roger Ascham) (1515-1568)
To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.
* 1925 , Franz Kafka, The Trial'', ''Vintage Books (London) , pg. 99:
To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur.
* {{quote-book, year=1594
, author=Thomas Lodge
, title=The wounds of civil war: Lively set forth in the true tragedies of Marius and Scilla
, page=46
, passage=You know that in so great a state as this, Two mightie foes can never well agree .}}
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
* (rfdate) Mark xiv. 56.
* (rfdate) Sir T. Browne
To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to.
(transitive, UK, Irish) To yield assent to; to approve.
* {{quote-book, year=1666
, author=Samuel Pepys
, title=The Diary of Samuel Pepys
, page=88
, passage=... and there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of £5,000 with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, ...}}
* {{quote-book, year=2005
, author=Paddy McNutt
, title=Law, economics and antitrust: towards a new perspective
, page=59
, passage=The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.}}
* 2011 April 3, John Burke, in The Sunday Business Post :
To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
* (rfdate) Matt. v. 25.
* (rfdate) Matt. xx. 13.
To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
(grammar) To correspond to in gender, number, case, or person.
(legal) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
As verbs the difference between countenance and agree
is that countenance is to tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something while agree is to harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur.As a noun countenance
is appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.countenance
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Alternative forms
* countenaunce (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
- Thou hast made himglad with thy countenance .
- This is the magistrate's peculiar province, to give countenance to piety and virtue, and to rebuke vice.
- The election being done, he made countenance of great discontent thereat.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(countenanc)- ''The cruel punishment was countenanced by the government, although it was not officially legal.
- 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
* approve, sanction, support, tolerateReferences
* * ----agree
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Verb
- all parties agree in the expediency of the law.
- If music and sweet poetry agree .
- Their witness agreed not together.
- The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.
- to agree to an offer, or to opinion.
- Bishops agree sex abuse rules
- Agree with thine adversary quickly.
- Didst not thou agree with me for a penny ?
- the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.
- the same food does not agree with every constitution.
