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misplease

misplease

English

Verb

misplease (third-person singular simple present mispleases, present participle mispleasing, simple past and past participle mispleased)

  1. (transitive) To fail in pleasing; displease.
    • 1889, William Henry Anderdon, Bracton:
      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.
    • 1924, Hastings Eells, The attitude of Martin Bucer toward the bigamy of Philip of Hesse:
      "[...] 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."
    • 1961, Friedrich Schiller, Mary Stuart:
      The heart mispleases me that is held coldly, Severely closed amid the years of feeling.