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Distaste
Definitions
- 1 A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy. uncountable, usually
- 2 a feeling of intense dislike wordnet
- 3 Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish. obsolete, uncountable, usually
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes"
- 4 Discomfort; uneasiness. obsolete, uncountable, usually
"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."
- 5 Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger. uncountable, usually
"On the part of Heav'n / Now alienated, diſtance and diſtaste,"
- 1 To dislike. obsolete, transitive
"How may I auoyde / (Although my will diſtaſte what it elected) / The Wife I choſe, there can be no euaſion / To blench from this, and to ſtand firme by honour."
- 2 to be distasteful; to taste bad intransitive
"Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons. / Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, […]"
- 3 To offend; to disgust; to displease. obsolete, transitive
"He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them."
- 4 To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful. obsolete, transitive
"And vvhat auayl'd his Anſvver in that Caſe? / VVhich the time then did vtterly diſtaſte, / And look'd vpon him vvith ſo ſterne a Face, / As it his Actions vtterly diſgrac'd: […]"
Etymology
From dis- + taste.
From dis- + taste.
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