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Definitions for countenances
coun·te·nances

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word countenances.


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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of countenances in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of countenances in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of countenances in a Sentence

  1. United States:

    Putin will be a pariah on the international stage. Any nation that countenances Russia's naked aggression against Ukraine will be stained by association.

  2. Charles Lamb:

    Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.

  3. Wystan Hugh Auden:

    The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

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