different between discountenance vs humiliate

English

Etymology

From Middle French descontenancer (compare French décontenancer).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?ka?nt?n?ns/

Verb

discountenance (third-person singular simple present discountenances, present participle discountenancing, simple past and past participle discountenanced)

1. (transitive) To have an unfavorable opinion of; to deprecate or disapprove of.
   • 1855, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, London: Routledge, Volume V, Chapter XXX, p. 74,^[1]

     A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot.

   • 1908, Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1921, Chapter 4, p. 90,^[2]

     So far from friendship being an institution whose value is recognised and understood, it is at best scantily acknowledged, and is often actually discountenanced and misunderstood.

   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 2,^[3]

     'Mrs' was a word somewhat discountenanced by the Party—you were supposed to call everyone 'comrade'—but with some women one used it instinctively.

2. (transitive) To abash, embarrass or disconcert.
3. (transitive) To refuse countenance or support to; to discourage.

Noun

discountenance (uncountable)

1. Cold treatment; disapprobation.

English

Etymology

From Late Latin humiliatus, past participle of humiliare (“to abase, humble”), from Latin humilis (“lowly, humble”), from humus (“ground; earth, soil”); see humble.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hju??m?li?e?t/

Verb

humiliate (third-person singular simple present humiliates, present participle humiliating, simple past and past participle humiliated)

1. (transitive) To injure the dignity and self-respect of.
2. (transitive) To make humble; to lower in condition or status.

Synonyms

• debase
• demean
• disgrace
• humble
• mortify
• shame
• See also Thesaurus:abash

Antonyms

• dignify
• honor

Related terms

• humble
• humiliation
• humility

Translations

Further reading

• humiliate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• humiliate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hu.mi.li?a?.te/, [h?m?li?ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /u.mi.li?a.te/, [umili???t??]

Verb

humili?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of humili?