misplease
To fail in pleasing; displease.
Verb
- 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...
- "[...] 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...
- The heart mispleases me that is held coldly, Severely closed amid the years of feeling. - 1961, Friedrich Schiller, Mary Stuart:
Origin
From Middle English misplesen, equivalent to mis- + please. Compare Old French mesplaire.