Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misplease

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-please
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To fail in pleasing; displease.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"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."
""[...] 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.""
"The heart mispleases me that is held coldly, Severely closed amid the years of feeling."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis
Root: misplesen

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

mispleases (present, singular) mispleasing (participle, present) mispleased (participle, past) mispleased (past)

Questions

What does misplease mean?: To fail in pleasing; displease.
Where does misplease come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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