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misplease

verb

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from misplesen

Definitions

  1. To fail in pleasing

    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.
    • "[...] 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."
    • The heart mispleases me that is held coldly, Severely closed amid the years of feeling.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA