See countenance on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:5:",
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"ref": "1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 319:",
"text": "It was as if the countenance were for a brief while allowed to wear the likeness of the peaceful and spiritual world whither the soul had departed.",
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"ref": "1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:",
"text": "But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.",
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"ref": "1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “\"Condor\"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 46:",
"text": "With such powerful selling-points, why is it, as recent editorial comment and correspondence in this journal has revealed, that \"Condor\" has yet to bring a warm glow to the countenance of the L.M.R.'s accountants?",
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 21:6:",
"text": "Thou hast made him[…]glad with thy countenance.",
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"ref": "1706 September 19 (Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “A Sermon Preach’d in the Guild-Hall Chapel, London, Sept. 28. 1706. Being the Day of the Election of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, →OCLC, page 424:",
"text": "This is the Magiſtrate's peculiar Province, to give Countenance to Piety and Virtue, and to rebuke Vice and Prophaneneſs; […]",
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"ref": "1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 179–180:",
"text": "However, the poor old lady is in great distress; she and her grandaughter are coming up to London, and I wish to give them all possible countenance and assistance.",
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"ref": "1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 174:",
"text": "All feared and obeyed him; to use his roads we must have his countenance.",
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"sense": "favour; support; encouragement",
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"word": "Unterstützung"
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"ref": "a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:",
"text": "The election being done, he made countenance of great discontent thereat.",
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"(obsolete) Superficial appearance; show; pretense."
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