Word Meanings - DISPLACENCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike. Sir T. Browne. (more info) displicere to displease; dis- + placere to please. See Displease, and

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• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• GRATIFICATION
  1. The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart. 2. That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment;
• ENVIOUS
  1. Malignant; mischievous; spiteful. Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch. Shak. 2. Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained
• DISLIKENESS
  Unlikeness. Locke.
• DISLIKELIHOOD
  The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.
• DISPLEASER
  One who displeases.
• DISPLEASURE
  1. The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor;
• PLEASED
  Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ed*ness, n.
• DISLIKEN
  To make unlike; to disguise. Shak.
• DISLIKER
  One who dislikes or disrelishes.
• PLEASEMAN
  An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. Shak.
• PLEASE
  1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. I pray to God that it may plesen you. Chaucer. What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. Milton. 2. To have or take
• DISPLEASEDNESS
  Displeasure. South.
• DISPLEASE
  pref. des- + plaisir to please. See Please, and cf. 1. To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger,
• DISLIKEFUL
  Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable. Spenser.
• DISPLEASEDLY
  With displeasure.
• OVERPLEASE
  To please excessively.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• SELF-COMPLACENCY
  The quality of being self-complacent. J. Foster.
• TIMEPLEASER
  One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak.
• MEN-PLEASER
  One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6.
• SUPERPLEASE
  To please exceedingly. B. Jonson.