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† disˈpleasance Obs.
Forms: see displeasant.
[a. OF. desplaisance (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), mod.F. déplaisance, f. desplaisant: see next and -ance. Cf. also displacence, displicence. Still stressed on final c 1530 by Skelton.]
The fact of being displeased; displeasure, dissatisfaction, discontent, annoyance, vexation; a cause or instance of this, a grievance, trouble.
c1340Hampole Prose Tr. 11 Wordes of myssawe ne vnhoneste ne of displesance. c1386Chaucer Pard. Prol. & T. 92 Thus quyte I folk, that doon vs displesances. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 48 So it be noon dysplesaunce to your pay. 1483Cath. Angl. 98/1 A Desplesance; grauamen, aggrauamen. 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 82 He was in grete desplaysaunce. 1509Barclay Shyp Folys (1570) 126 Justice ought to be wayed..Not rigorously for wrath or displeasaunce. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. x. 28 Whose simple answere..him to displeasaunce moov'd. [1886J. Payne Decameron I. 29 Albeit the husbandmen die there..the displeasance is there the less.] |