Usually means: Expressions or features of faces.
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  1. countenances: Merriam-Webster
  2. countenances: Collins English Dictionary
  3. countenances: Vocabulary.com
  4. Countenances, countenances: Wordnik
  5. countenances: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. countenances: Wiktionary
  7. countenances: Dictionary.com
  8. countenances: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. countenances: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. countenances: Legal dictionary

(Note: See countenance as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (countenance)

noun:  Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.
noun:  Favour; support; encouragement.
noun:  (obsolete) Superficial appearance; show; pretense.
noun:  Calm facial expression, composure, self-control.
verb:  (transitive) To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.
▸ Also see countenance


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