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misplease

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To fail in pleasing; displease.

transitive

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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