† disˈpleasance Obs.
Forms: see displeasant.
[a. OF. desplaisance (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), mod.F. déplaisance, f. desplaisant: see next and -ance. Cf. also displacence, displicence. Still stressed on final c 1530 by Skelton.]
The fact of being displeased; displeasure, dissatisfaction, discontent, annoyance, vexation; a cause or instance of this, a grievance, trouble.
| c 1340 Hampole Prose Tr. 11 Wordes of myssawe ne vnhoneste ne of displesance. c 1386 Chaucer Pard. Prol. & T. 92 Thus quyte I folk, that doon vs displesances. c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 48 So it be noon dysplesaunce to your pay. 1483 Cath. Angl. 98/1 A Desplesance; grauamen, aggrauamen. 1485 Caxton Chas. Gt. 82 He was in grete desplaysaunce. 1509 Barclay Shyp Folys (1570) 126 Justice ought to be wayed..Not rigorously for wrath or displeasaunce. 1590 Spenser F.Q. ii. x. 28 Whose simple answere..him to displeasaunce moov'd. [1886 J. Payne Decameron I. 29 Albeit the husbandmen die there..the displeasance is there the less.] |