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countenanced

countenanced is the simple past and past participle of countenance.

Meaning of countenance

Verb

countenance (third-person singular simple present countenances, present participle countenancing, simple past and past participle countenanced)

  1. (transitive) To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.
    • The cruel punishment was countenanced by the government, although it was not officially legal.

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Words formed from countenanced

Questions about countenanced

What is countenanced the simple past and past participle of?
Countenanced is the simple past and past participle of countenance.

Words near countenanced in the dictionary

  1. counted upon
  2. countedness
  3. countedst
  4. Countegany
  5. countenance
  6. countenanced
  7. countenancer
  8. countenancers
  9. countenances
  10. countenanceth
  11. countenancing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: countenanced (page history and authors); countenance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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