All 37 Uses of
countenance
in
Mansfield Park
- She was preparing for her ninth lying-in; and after bewailing the circumstance, and imploring their countenance as sponsors to the expected child, she could not conceal how important she felt they might be to the future maintenance of the eight already in being.
Chpt 1 (definition 1) *countenance = support
- She was small of her age, with no glow of complexion, nor any other striking beauty; exceedingly timid and shy, and shrinking from notice; but her air, though awkward, was not vulgar, her voice was sweet, and when she spoke her countenance was pretty.
Chpt 2 (definition 2)countenance = face
- Fanny's feelings on the occasion were such as she believed herself incapable of expressing; but her countenance and a few artless words fully conveyed all their gratitude and delight, and her cousin began to find her an interesting object.
Chpt 2 (definition 2) *countenance = facial expression
- Mary Crawford was remarkably pretty; Henry, though not handsome, had air and countenance; the manners of both were lively and pleasant, and Mrs. Grant immediately gave them credit for everything else.
Chpt 4 (definition 2)countenance = impressive manner
- The second meeting proved him not so very plain: he was plain, to be sure, but then he had so much countenance, and his teeth were so good, and he was so well made, that one soon forgot he was plain; and after a third interview, after dining in company with him at the Parsonage, he was no longer allowed to be called so by anybody.
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- She has the advantage in every feature, and I prefer her countenance; but I like Julia best; Miss Bertram is certainly the handsomest, and I have found her the most agreeable, but I shall always like Julia best, because you order me.
Chpt 5 (definition 2)countenance = face
- She came up to me, claimed me as an acquaintance, stared me out of countenance; and talked and laughed till I did not know which way to look.
Chpt 5 (definition 2)countenance = composure
- It is her countenance that is so attractive.
Chpt 7 (definition 2)countenance = face
- The right of a lively mind, Fanny, seizing whatever may contribute to its own amusement or that of others; perfectly allowable, when untinctured by ill-humour or roughness; and there is not a shadow of either in the countenance or manner of Miss Crawford: nothing sharp, or loud, or coarse.
Chpt 7 (definition 2)countenance = manner (way of behaving)
- When Julia looked back, it was with a countenance of delight,
Chpt 8 (definition 2)countenance = facial expression
- Miss Crawford's countenance, as Julia spoke, might have amused a disinterested observer.
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- And he sat down with a most gloomy countenance by Fanny.
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- "Let us be doing something. Be it only half a play, an act, a scene; what should prevent us? Not these countenances, I am sure," looking towards the Miss Bertrams;
Chpt 13 (definition 2)countenances = faces
- I could not stand your countenance dressed up in woe and paleness.
Chpt 14 (definition 2)countenance = facial expression
- Her features are not tragic features, and she walks too quick, and speaks too quick, and would not keep her countenance.
Chpt 14 (definition 2)countenance = composure
- She looked suspiciously at her sister; Maria's countenance was to decide it: if she were vexed and alarmed—but Maria looked all serenity and satisfaction, and Julia well knew that on this ground Maria could not be happy but at her expense.
Chpt 14 (definition 2)countenance = facial expression
- With hasty indignation, therefore, and a tremulous voice, she said to him, "You do not seem afraid of not keeping your countenance when I come in with a basket of provisions—though one might have supposed—but it is only as Agatha that I was to be so overpowering!"
Chpt 14 (definition 2)countenance = composure
- I thought he began to look a little queer, so I turned it off as well as I could, by whispering to him, 'We shall have an excellent Agatha; there is something so maternal in her manner, so completely maternal in her voice and countenance.'
Chpt 18 (definition 2)countenance = manner or face
- Julia's looks were an evidence of the fact that made it indisputable; and after the first starts and exclamations, not a word was spoken for half a minute: each with an altered countenance was looking at some other, and almost each was feeling it a stroke the most unwelcome, most ill-timed, most appalling!
Chpt 19 (definition 2)countenance = manner or facial expression
- At the very moment of Yates perceiving Sir Thomas, and giving perhaps the very best start he had ever given in the whole course of his rehearsals, Tom Bertram entered at the other end of the room; and never had he found greater difficulty in keeping his countenance.
Chpt 19 (definition 2)countenance = composure
- …relating everything with so blind an interest as made him not only totally unconscious of the uneasy movements of many of his friends as they sat, the change of countenance, the fidget, the hem! of unquietness, but prevented him even from seeing the expression of the face on which his own eyes were fixed—from seeing Sir Thomas's dark brow contract as he looked with inquiring earnestness at his daughters and…
Chpt 19 (definition 2)countenance = manner or facial expression
- The young people had been very inconsiderate in forming the plan; they ought to have been capable of a better decision themselves; but they were young; and, excepting Edmund, he believed, of unsteady characters; and with greater surprise, therefore, he must regard her acquiescence in their wrong measures, her countenance of their unsafe amusements, than that such measures and such amusements should have been suggested.
Chpt 20 (definition 1)countenance = toleration or approval
- Your complexion is so improved!—and you have gained so much countenance!
Chpt 21 (definition 2)countenance = impressive manner (perhaps attractive facial expression)
- I used to think she had neither complexion nor countenance; but in that soft skin of hers, so frequently tinged with a blush as it was yesterday, there is decided beauty; and from what I observed of her eyes and mouth, I do not despair of their being capable of expression enough when she has anything to express.
Chpt 24 (definition 2)countenance = attractive facial expression
- She had a letter from him herself, a few hurried happy lines, written as the ship came up Channel, and sent into Portsmouth with the first boat that left the Antwerp at anchor in Spithead; and when Crawford walked up with the newspaper in his hand, which he had hoped would bring the first tidings, he found her trembling with joy over this letter, and listening with a glowing, grateful countenance to the kind invitation which her uncle was most collectedly dictating in reply.
Chpt 24 (definition 2)countenance = facial expression
- William and Fanny soon shewed themselves; and Sir Thomas had the pleasure of receiving, in his protege, certainly a very different person from the one he had equipped seven years ago, but a young man of an open, pleasant countenance, and frank, unstudied, but feeling and respectful manners, and such as confirmed him his friend.
Chpt 24 (definition 2)countenance = manner or facial expression
- Fanny's attractions increased—increased twofold; for the sensibility which beautified her complexion and illumined her countenance was an attraction in itself.
Chpt 24 (definition 2)countenance = facial expression
- ...and though he looked at her with his usual kindness, she believed he had soon ceased to think of her countenance. He did not appear in spirits: something unconnected with her was probably amiss.
Chpt 27 (definition 2)
- ...her countenance, as she spoke, had extraordinary animation;
Chpt 33 (definition 2)
- I wish you could have overheard her tribute of praise; I wish you could have seen her countenance, when she said that you should be Henry's wife.
Chpt 35 (definition 2)
- They were no sooner in the hall than all restraint of countenance was over on Miss Crawford's side.
Chpt 36 (definition 2)countenance = composure
- With woeful countenances they looked at each other.
Chpt 37 (definition 2)countenances = facial expressions
- Susan had an open, sensible countenance; she was like William, and Fanny hoped to find her like him in disposition and goodwill towards herself.
Chpt 38 (definition 2)countenance = facial expression
- While trying to keep herself alive, their visitor, who had at first approached her with as animated a countenance as ever, was wisely and kindly keeping his eyes away, and giving her time to recover, while he devoted himself entirely to her mother, addressing her, and attending to her with the utmost politeness and propriety, at the same time with a degree of friendliness, of interest at least, which was making his manner perfect.
Chpt 41 (definition 2)
- I saw her change countenance. She turned extremely red. I imagined I saw a mixture of many feelings:
Chpt 47 (definition 2)
- Mrs. Norris ... would have had her received at home and countenanced by them all.
Chpt 48 (definition 1)countenanced = tolerated or shown support
- In her usefulness, in Fanny's excellence, in William's continued good conduct and rising fame, and in the general well-doing and success of the other members of the family, all assisting to advance each other, and doing credit to his countenance and aid, Sir Thomas saw repeated, and for ever repeated, reason to rejoice in what he had done for them all, and acknowledge the advantages of early hardship and discipline, and the consciousness of being born to struggle and endure.
Chpt 48 (definition 1)countenance = support
Definitions:
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(1) (countenance as in: giving countenance) to tolerate, approve, or show favor or support
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(2) (countenance as in: a pleasant countenance) facial expression; or face; or composure or manner