Misplease

Origin

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

Full definition of misplease

Verb

1. (transitive) To fail in pleasing; displease.
• 1889, William Henry Anderdon, Bracton: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.
• 1924, Hastings Eells, The attitude of Martin Bucer toward the bigamy of Philip of Hesse:"... 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."
• 1961, Friedrich Schiller, Mary Stuart:The heart mispleases me that is held coldly, Severely closed amid the years of feeling.