Discountenance vs Humiliate - What's the difference?
discountenance | humiliate |
To have an unfavorable opinion of; to deprecate or disapprove of.
* Bancroft
To abash, embarrass or disconcert.
* Milton
* Sir Walter Scott
To injure a person's dignity and self-respect.
As verbs the difference between discountenance and humiliate
is that discountenance is to have an unfavorable opinion of; to deprecate or disapprove of while humiliate is to injure a person's dignity and self-respect.discountenance
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Verb
(en-verb)- A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot.
- How would one look from his majestic brow Discountenance her despised!
- The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation.