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# countenance

«countenance» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **face** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

face

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A person's face, or the look on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/countenance/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it is formal or old-fashioned, and we say "face." In "put out of countenance" it means made to feel embarrassed, which is an old phrase.

### examples

- And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. (Torah GEN.4.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/countenance/#x1)
- Don't be put out of countenance. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/countenance/#x2)
- The LORD lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. (Torah NUM.6.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/countenance/#x3)

### primary record

countenance

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 65 (Torah 6, tales 59, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 7.4 (Torah alone 14.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.93/)
- [And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.94/)
- [And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.935/)
- [The LORD lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.246/)
- [a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.787/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «countenance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/countenance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.