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discountenancers

discountenancers is the plural of discountenancer.

Meaning of discountenancer

Noun

discountenancer (plural discountenancers)

  1. One who discountenances.
    • And it was not long ere these rumours of novelty had begotten others of scandal and murmur against the King and his government , taxing him for a great taxer of his people , and discountenancer of his nobility1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret...

Questions about discountenancers

What is discountenancers the plural of?
Discountenancers is the plural of discountenancer.

Words near discountenancers in the dictionary

  1. discountably
  2. discounted
  3. discountenance
  4. discountenanced
  5. discountenancer
  6. discountenancers
  7. discountenances
  8. discountenanceth
  9. discountenancing
  10. discounter
  11. discounters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: discountenancers (page history and authors); discountenancer (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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