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▪ I. displeasure, n.|dɪsˈplɛʒ(j)ʊə(r)|
Forms: α. 5 des-, dis-, dysplaisir, -playsir, -yr(e. β. dis-, dysplaysure, -pleysure, 5–6 dyspleasur(e, 6 displesour, -pleis-, -pleas-, displeasur, -or, 6– displeasure.
[In type α, a. OF. desplaisir (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), mod.F. déplaisir, subst. use of OF. infin. desplaisir to displease: cf. Pr. desplazer, Sp. desplacer, It. dispiacere, in subst. use. In type β, conformed to pleasure, which see for the relation between plaisir, pleasure.]
1. The fact or condition of being displeased or offended; a feeling varying according to its intensity from dissatisfaction or disapproval to anger and indignation provoked by a person or action.
α1484Caxton Chivalry 81 Yre and dysplaysyre gyuen passion and payn to the body and to the sowle.
β1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 57 Pream., All that that he hath doon to the displeasure of your Highnes. 1535Coverdale Nahum i. 2 The Lorde..reserueth displeasure for his aduersaries. c1550Cheke Matt. iii. 7 Who hath counceld to yow, to flie from y⊇ displeasur to come? 1601Shakes. All's Well ii. v. 38, I know not how I haue deserued to run into my Lords displeasure. 1769Junius Lett. xv. 64 The royal displeasure has been signified. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xvii, ‘Thou art severe’..said the Duke of Rothsay, with an air of displeasure. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 116 An indication of the displeasure of Heaven.
†b. phr. to take (a) displeasure: to take offence, take umbrage; to be displeased. Obs.
c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xxvi. 96 She brought thene in remembraunce how swetly he had kyssed her, wherof she had take so grete a dyspleasure. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 1863, No man was greued nor toke dyspleasure At this sayd mayden. 1610Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 202 Do you heare Monster: If I should Take a displeasure against you: Looke you. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts 536, I began to take displeasure against them for their wickednesse.
†2. The opposite of pleasure; discomfort, uneasiness, unhappiness; grief, sorrow, trouble. Obs.
αc1477Caxton Jason 70 Appollo..considering the right grete displaisir in which they hadde ben,..opened all the entrees. 1485― Paris & V. 22, I shall deye..for the grete desplaysyr that I have contynuelly in my herte.
β14..Compl. Mary Magd. 272 They have him conveyed to my displeasure, For here is lafte but naked sepulture. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xxxiv. 129 My sayd lady is in grete displaysure, & ceaseth not nyght nor day to wysshe hym wyth her. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 11 Men..Oppressed with pouerte, langour and dyspleasure. 1632Lithgow Trav. ii. 66 He disappointed died for displeasure in his returne. 1630S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. (1658) 24 The humane receiveth from his body pleasure and displeasure, sorrow and delight. a1704Locke (J.), When good is proposed, its absence carries displeasure or pain with it. 1875W. K. Clifford Lect. (1879) II. 126 A feeling..as distinct..as the feeling of pleasure in a sweet taste or of displeasure at a toothache.
†b. with a and pl. An instance of this. Obs. Cf. 1 † b.
c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) C j, Hauing for one pleasure displeasures eight or nine. 1542Boorde Dyetary viii. (1870) 246 It doth ingendre the crampe, the gowte & other displeasures. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 338 A mutual Sense and feeling of each others Pleasures and Displeasures.
3. That which causes or occasions offence or trouble; injury, harm; a wrong, an offence. arch.
α1470–85Malory Arthur ix. xix, I dyd to hym no displeasyre. 1481Caxton Myrr. iii. xiii. 162 Thus auenged he hym on her for the displaysir that she had don to hym.
β1494Fabyan Chron. vi. clxi. 154 Y⊇ great daunger that he was in agaynste God for the dyspleasurys doon to hym. 1534in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 124 They might..doe displeasure and execute theire malice upon the inhabitants. 1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619) 364 He was..incensed, and promised to worke them a displeasure. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. iv. iv. 119 Hast thou delight to see a wretched man Do outrage and displeasure to himselfe? 1662J. Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 36 Antonio was still a thorn in his side, doing him all the displeasures he could. 1866Howells Venet. Life 19 To do you a service and not a displeasure.
†4. A state of unpleasant or unfriendly relations; a disagreement, ‘difference’. Obs.
1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds (1877) §72. 81 Wyllyam Conquerour..upon certayne dyspleasures betwene hym and the french kyng, passed..into Fraunce. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 138 A displeasure and variance began to growe betwene the Constable of the Tower, and the Citizens of London. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent. (1826) 215 During the displeasure betweene him and Earle Godwin.
▪ II. disˈpleasure, v. arch.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To cause displeasure to; to annoy; to displease.
1540–1Elyot Image Gov. 109 Hated be he of goddes and of men that would you displeasure. 1563Homilies ii. Of Almsdeeds i. (1859) 387 He..is both able to pleasure and displeasure us. 1625Bacon Ess., Ambition (Arb.) 227 When the Way of Pleasuring and Displeasuring, lieth by the Favourite. 1829Southey O. Newman vi, Not for worlds Would I do aught that might displeasure thee. 1849Whittier Marg. Smith's Jrnl. Prose Wks. 1889 I. 25 Our young gentleman, not willing to displeaure a man so esteemed as Mr. Richardson.
†b. transf. Obs.
1570Dee Math. Pref. 24 Elementall bodies, are altered..and displeasured, by the Influentiall working of the Sunne. |