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1751. Scots Mag., XIII. May, 236/2. That they cannot purchase friends, thou didst soon discover when thou wert left to stand thy trial uncountenanced and alone.
1776. Mickle, Camoens’ Lusiad, Introd. 129. Fanshaw’s Lusiad, where … there are puns, conceits, and low quaint expressions, uncountenanced by the original.
1820. T. Mitchell, Aristoph., I. 159. Desertion, uncountenanced as yet by the example of the unprincipled Alcibiades, was held in strong and merited abhorrence.
a. 1864. Ferrier, Grk. Philos. (1866), II. 428. The existence of such matter is, as we have shown, altogether uncountenanced either by consciousness or belief.
1923. Emily Lawless, Ireland (Rev ed.), x. 87. It was now Strongbow’s aim to hasten back and place his new lordship at the feet of his sovereign, already angry and jealous at such unlooked for and uncountenanced successes.
1925. Stella Benson, The Little World, 67. The uncountenanced is the finer spirit, one gathers. Uncountenanced rebels generally are, I think.
