displease
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English displesen, from Anglo-Norman despleisir, desplere, from Old French desplere, from des- + plere.
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displease (third-person singular simple present displeases, present participle displeasing, simple past and past participle displeased)
- (transitive) To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.
- The boy's rudeness displeased me.
- I felt displeased with the boy.
- 1662, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The Psalms, Sixteenth Day, Evening Prayer”, in The Book of Common-Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, […], London: […] John Bill, and Christopher Barker, […], OCLC 1053343847, column 1, psalm 85, line 5:
- Wilt thou be displeased at us forever: and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another?
- (intransitive) To give displeasure or offense.
- (transitive, obsolete) To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
- c. 1608–1611, Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “The Maid’s Tragedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, OCLC 3083972, Act IV, scene i:
- I shall displease my ends else.
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to fail to please or satisfy
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Further reading[edit]
- “displease” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “displease” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- displease at OneLook Dictionary Search
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