Disappoint
King James Dictionary [1]
DISAPPOINT, dis and appoint properly, to unfix or unsettle.
1. To defeat of expectation, wish, hope, desire or intention to frustrate to balk to hinder from the possession or enjoyment of that which was intended, desired, hoped or expected. We say, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions or expectations are disappointed. A bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil The man promised me a visit, by he disappointed me.
Without counsel purposes are disappointed. Proverbs 15 .
2. To frustrate to prevent an effect intended.
The retiring foe shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [2]
dis -a -point ´: "To disappoint" may be used transitively or intransitively. In the former case it naturally has a more forceful meaning. Therefore the Revised Version (British and American) changes the translation of the King James Version wherever "disappoint" is used with an object: Job 5:12 , "frustrateth"; Psalm 17:13 , "confront him," the Revised Version, margin "forestall"; Judith 16:6, "brought them to nought"; but the Revised Version (British and American) retains "disappoint" where the person wh disappoints is not expressed. Compare Proverbs 15:22 .
