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displease

dis·please

Today it means: To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly. Full definition →

Middle English displesen ← Anglo-Norman despleisir ← Old French desplere

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Old French · derived fromdesplere
Anglo-Norman · derived fromdespleisir
Middle English · derived fromdisplesen
English todaydisplease

English dis- + please, from Middle English displesen, from Anglo-Norman despleisir, desplere, from Old French desplere (des- + plere).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.