All 8 Uses of
countenance
in
Middlemarch
- Nay, Celia, that is too much to ask, that I should wear trinkets to keep you in countenance.†
Chpt 1
- But Sir James's countenance changed a little.†
Chpt 1
- In my time whist was thought an undeniable amusement for a good churchman," said Mrs. Farebrother, innocent of the meaning that whist had for her son, and speaking rather sharply, as at some dangerous countenancing of new doctrine.†
Chpt 5
- I like her countenance.†
Chpt 7 *
- Mr. Brooke, who had before heard only imperfect hints of it, and was very uneasy that he had "gone a little too far" in countenancing Bulstrode, now got himself fully informed, and felt some benevolent sadness in talking to Mr. Farebrother about the ugly light in which Lydgate had come to be regarded.†
Chpt 7 *
- Thesiger has always countenanced him," said Mrs. Hackbutt.†
Chpt 8
- With a quick change of countenance he rose and went out of the room.†
Chpt 8
- "I can do nothing to hinder it, Cadwallader," he added, turning for a little countenance toward the Rector, who said— "—I—should not make any fuss about it.†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
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(countenance as in: giving countenance) to tolerate, approve, or show favor or support
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(countenance as in: a pleasant countenance) facial expression; or face; or composure or manner