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displacency Now rare or Obs.|dɪsˈpleɪsənsɪ| [f. as prec.: see -ency. See also displicency.] The fact or condition of being displeased with something; displeasure, dissatisfaction, dislike. (The reverse of complacency.)
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. x. iii. 503 Their hatred of the devil is commonly nothing else but an inward displacency of nature against something entitled by the devil's name. 1654Warren Unbelievers 205 His divine displacency against their sins. 1771Wesley Wks. (1872) VI. 18 Feeling a displacency at every offence against God. 1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 59 The infant has made himself the object of complacency or of displacency, according to his original dispositions, or his individual character. |