Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Displeasure; dislike.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Dislike; dissatisfaction; discontent.
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- noun obsolete
dislike ;dissatisfaction ;discontent
Etymologies
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Latin displicentia. See displacency.
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Examples
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For dowt and drede doyng {e} his souereyñ displicence, 1188 hym to attende, and his gest {is} to plese in place wher {e} þey ar p {re} sence, that his souereyñ þrough {e} his s {er} uice may make grete co {n} gaudence.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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