displeasance

English

Etymology

From Old French desplaisance.

Noun

displeasance (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Displeasure, dissatisfaction.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Cordeill said she lou'd him, as behoou'd: / Whose simple answere, wanting colours faire / To paint it forth, him to displeasance moou'd […]