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misplease en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English misplesen, equivalent to mis- + please. Compare Old French mesplaire.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To fail in pleasing; displease.
   • Oh, i [sic] have one great Fear to misplease Him, and I pray He give me more of that Fear each Day, He my heavenly Father, not the Fear like Olga to the Knout, but to fear I misplease Him my Father, and make me not worthy of His Love. 1889, William Henry Anderdon, Bracton:
   • "[...] Yet let this make me as sorry as it will, still I must on that account above all see how everything looks before God and in itself, how it pleases or mispleases him." 1924, Hastings Eells, The attitude of Martin Bucer toward the bigamy of Philip of Hesse:
   • The heart mispleases me that is held coldly, Severely closed amid the years of feeling. 1961, Friedrich Schiller, Mary Stuart:

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