displeasure

plural displeasures

1. uncountableusuallyA feeling of being displeased with something or someone; dissatisfaction; disapproval.

   Tangling with Ziv, Cameron caught him with a flailing elbow, causing the Israeli defender to go down a little easily. However, the referee was in no doubt, much to the displeasure of the home fans.

   2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport

   Synonyms: discontent, discontentment, dissatisfaction, unhappiness, condemnation, disapprobation, disapproval

2. uncountableusuallyThat which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offence; injury.

   Hast thou delight to see a wretched man / Do outrage and displeasure to himself?

   c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]

   Synonyms: ache, discomfort, pain

3. uncountableusuallyA state of disgrace or disfavour.

   [H]ee went into Poland, being in displeasure with the pope for ouermuch familiaritie with a kinswoman of his.

   1622, Henry Peacham, The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman., page 101

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   [King Lear] charged me, on pain of their perpetual displeasure, neither to speak of him [Edgar], entreat for him, nor any way sustain him.

   c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]

present singular third person displeasures · participle present displeasuring · participle past displeasured · past displeasured

1. archaicTo displease or offend.