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 →

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 →
• Don't be put out of countenance. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• The LORD lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. (Torah NUM.6.26, JPS 1917) tree →

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.
• And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
• And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime.
• The LORD lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
• a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «countenance» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.