Definition of "countenancing" [countenancing]

• Present participle of countenance. (verb)

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• "For, if it was the principle of his religion that the gospel is the instrument of our justification and not the law, then he did very ill in countenancing those who kept up the law, and were for mixing it with faith in the business of our justification."
• "He laughed at the idea of countenancing an engagement between a child like Marcella and an obscure country doctor."
• "[Surely, Landor's old antagonism to former English governments led him into error and injustice when he accuses England of "countenancing" the tyrannies of the Neapolitan government."