displacency

From Latin displacentia, for displicentia, from displicere (“to displease”), from dis- + placere (“to please”). See displease, and compare displeasance.

displacency (countable and uncountable, plural displacencies)

1. (obsolete) Lack of complacency or gratification; displeasure or dislike.
   • 1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals‎^[1], 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 20:

     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.

   • 1766, John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection‎^[2], 5th edition, London, published 1785, page 16:

     He feels a displacency at every offence against God, but only tender compassion to the offender.

   • 1700s, Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible:

     Upon me be the curse. This was the greatest piece of self-displacency that could be: considering his infinite spotless purity and holiness, the infinite love of the Father to him, and his eternal concern for his Father's glory, nothing could be more contrary to him, nor more against him, than to be made sin and a curse for us

• “displacency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.