discountenance vs encourage

discountenance

verb
  • To refuse countenance or support to; to discourage. 

  • To abash, embarrass or disconcert. 

  • To have an unfavorable opinion of; to deprecate or disapprove of. 

noun
  • Cold treatment; disapprobation. 

encourage

verb
  • To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit. 

  • To spur on, strongly recommend. 

  • To foster, give help or patronage 

How often have the words discountenance and encourage occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )