misoblige
English
Etymology
mis- + oblige
Verb
misoblige (third-person singular simple present misobliges, present participle misobliging, simple past and past participle misobliged)
- (rare, obsolete) To disoblige.
- 1665, The Worthies of the World, page 234:
- Flaminius (whose Statue is next that of Appollo) that good-natured man, who had rather converse with those that wanted his help, doing good, than those whose he wanted, receiving good; that thought it a kindnesse to serve others, and loved them most intirely whom he had misobliged; was born and bred in a warlike time, and served under Marcellus against Hannibal, in whose stead (when he was slain in an ambush) he was made governour of Tarentum then re-taken, where he shewed himself so good a man, and so expert a Souldier, that he was appointed their Leader that were to inhabit the new Cities of Narnia and Coffa;
- 1865, The Sutherlands, page 80:
- But Salome, somewhat jealous of the favour lavished by the young lady on her rather flighty assistant, shook her head, and said she was sorry to misoblige Miss Laura, but Nattee was getting more shiftless every day; she hadn't done work enough since breakfast to pay for her keep, and she couldn't, with any conscience, think of letting her go away till the afternoon chores were all done up, and they were hardly begun as yet.