All 15 Uses
countenance
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The Return of the Native
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- Her countenance changed.
Chpt 4 *countenance = facial expression; or face
- As with some persons who have long lived apart, solitude seemed to look out of its countenance.†
Chpt 1
- Yet the permanent moral expression of each face it was impossible to discover, for as the nimble flames towered, nodded, and swooped through the surrounding air, the blots of shade and flakes of light upon the countenances of the group changed shape and position endlessly.†
Chpt 1
- Hence it may be that the face of an old man, who had like others been called to the heights by the rising flames, was not really the mere nose and chin that it appeared to be, but an appreciable quantity of human countenance.†
Chpt 1
- "No," said Grandfer Cantle, his countenance slightly flagging.†
Chpt 1
- Thus the night revealed little of her whose form it was embracing, for the mobile parts of her countenance could not be seen.†
Chpt 1
- Perhaps she quailed a little under Charley's vigorous gaze, but whether any shyness at her male attire appeared upon her countenance could not be seen by reason of the strips of ribbon which used to cover the face in mumming costumes, representing the barred visor of the mediaeval helmet.†
Chpt 2
- To one of middle age the countenance was that of a young man, though a youth might hardly have seen any necessity for the term of immaturity.†
Chpt 2
- His countenance was overlaid with legible meanings.†
Chpt 2
- "To be sure we will," said Fairway, taking the candle and moving it over the surface of the Grandfer's countenance, the subject of his scrutiny irradiating himself with light and pleasant smiles, and giving himself jerks of juvenility.†
Chpt 2
- All that he had known of the affair before he returned from Paris was that there had existed an attachment between Thomasin and Wildeve, which his mother had at first discountenanced, but had since, owing to the arguments of Thomasin, looked upon in a little more favourable light.†
Chpt 2 *discountenanced = showed disfavorstandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discountenanced reverses the meaning of countenanced. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
- BOOK THIRD THE FASCINATION I "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" In Clym Yeobright's face could be dimly seen the typical countenance of the future.†
Chpt 3
- Instead of there being before him the pale face of Eustacia, and a masculine shape unknown, there was only the imperturbable countenance of the heath, which, having defied the cataclysmal onsets of centuries, reduced to insignificance by its seamed and antique features the wildest turmoil of a single man.†
Chpt 5
- No doubt Thomasin was ignorant that her husband had any share in the events of that tragic afternoon; but her countenance seemed to signify that she concealed some suspicion or thought of the reputed tender relations between Wildeve and Eustacia in days gone by.†
Chpt 5
- To his astonishment there stood within the room Diggory Venn, no longer a reddleman, but exhibiting the strangely altered hues of an ordinary Christian countenance, white shirt-front, light flowered waistcoat, blue-spotted neckerchief, and bottle-green coat.†
Chpt 6
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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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, in addition to facial expression, countenance can refer to one's posture and other visible features.