displeasance
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French desplaisance.
Noun
[edit]displeasance (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Displeasure, dissatisfaction.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Cordeill said she lou'd him, as behoou'd: / Whose simple answere, wanting colours faire / To paint it forth, him to displeasance moou'd […]