displease
part of speech
verb (displeases, displeased, displeasing)
meaning for a pupil
To displease someone is to make them cross or unhappy, or to fail to please them. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah, Balaam offers to turn back if his journey offends the angel. In the primary lessons: in tales, a king or a bird is annoyed by a rude answer or a plain face; in lessons, a mistake that displeases the teacher.
examples
- And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD: 'I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me; now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back.' (Torah NUM.22.34, JPS 1917) tree →
- Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.' (Prophets 1SA.29.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- Lest the LORD see it, and it displease Him, and He turn away His wrath from him. (Writings PRO.24.18, JPS 1917) tree →
- Noisy talking displeases the teacher. tree →
- Your rude answer displeased the queen. tree →
- The mess displeased Mum. tree →
- Nothing I did seemed to displease him. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
- Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.'
- But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
- And the king of Israel went to his house sullen and displeased, and came to Samaria.
- And the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice;
- But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «displease» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.