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▪ I. disˈpleasing, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb displease; offending.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 411 Priamus..hadde anon in mynde..þe displesynge [Higden contemptus] of his messager Antenor. 1530Palsgr. 214/1 Displeasyng, remors, offention. 1580Baret Alv. D 904 Without any displeasing of the tast. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 26 ⁋14 A servile fear of displeasing.
▪ II. disˈpleasing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Causing displeasure, giving offence, disagreeable.
1401Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 17 It is..displeasing to God, and harme to oure soules. 1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 30 Displesand and nocht acceptable to God. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, Epil. 10 A displeasing Play. 1643Milton Divorce ii. viii. (1851) 80 By reason of some displeasing natural quality or unfitnes in her. 1779F. Burney Diary Oct., A rich counsellor..but, to me, a displeasing man. 1845M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 16 [The marriage] was also..highly displeasing to his father Chilperic.
Hence disˈpleasingly adv.; disˈpleasingness.
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. viii. 394 Nothing that might..carry in it any semblance of displeasingness. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xxi. (1695) 149 'Tis a mistake to think, that Men cannot change the Displeasingness or indifferency, that is in actions, into pleasure. 1731Bailey, Displeasingly, offensively. 1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty xi. 128 Although the form..should be ever so confused or displeasingly shaped to the eye! 1841W. Palmer 6th Let. to Wiseman 28 A virtual displeasingness in this life. 1843Lytton Last Bar. i. v, Associated displeasingly with recollections of pain. |