Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dislike; dissatisfaction; displeasure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Want of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike.
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- noun obsolete Lack of
complacency orgratification ;envious displeasure ;dislike .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A displacency at the good of others, because they enjoy it although we do not want it, is an absurd depravity sticking fast unto nature, from its primitive corruption, which he that can well subdue were a Christian of the first magnitude, and for ought I know may have one foot already in heaven.
Letter to a Friend 2007
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In the divine nature there may be real, and yet most serene, complacency and displacency -- viz., that, unaccompanied by the least commotion, that impart nothing of imperfection, but perfection rather, as it is a perfection to apprehend things suitably to what in themselves they are.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South Grenville Kleiser 1910
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And therefore temperate minds, not pressing their pleasures until the sting appeareth, enjoy their contentations contentedly, and without regret, and so escape the folly of excess, to be pleased unto displacency.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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A displacency at the good of others because they enjoy it, though not unworthy of it, is an absurd depravity, sticking fast unto corrupted nature, and often too hard for humility and charity, the great suppressors of envy.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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The difference is wide between displacency on our part in their extravagances, and an imputation of total abandonment.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1860
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Christian nation feels not the slightest self-displacency for its allowing
An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance John Foster 1806
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A displacency at the good of others, because they enjoy it although we do not want it, is an absurd depravity sticking fast unto nature, from its primitive corruption, which he that can well subdue were a Christian of the first magnitude, and for ought I know may have one foot already in heaven.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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And therefore temperate minds, not pressing their pleasures until the sting appeareth, enjoy their contentations contentedly and without regret, and so escape the folly of excess, to be pleased unto displacency. "
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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