All 5 Uses
countenance
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My Antonia
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- with a quite blissful expression of countenance.
Book 3 *countenance = face
- Mary Dusak was broad and brown of countenance, slightly marked by smallpox, but handsome for all that.†
Book 2
- If the room had suddenly been flooded with electric light, I couldn't have seen more clearly the detestable bearded countenance that I knew was bending over me.†
Book 2
- She was already old, with a ravaged countenance and a physique curiously hard and stiff.†
Book 3
- They said nothing, but, glancing at me, traced on the glass with their finger-tips the outline of the cherries and strawberries and crabapples within, trying by a blissful expression of countenance to give me some idea of their deliciousness.†
Book 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(countenance as in: a pleasant countenance) facial expression; or face; or composure or manner
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(2)
(countenance as in: giving countenance) to tolerate, approve, or show favor or support
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, in addition to facial expression, countenance can refer to one's posture and other visible features.