I just noticed how weird this word is. Admittedly I could look it up, but efforts to do so just led to a lot of popups. All I can guess about it is that the words appointed and disappointed must have diverged a pretty fur piece somewhere along the line over the centuries. All I got out of the etymology search apart from popups was that the root word appoint comes from Middle French, but not what it meant.
I guess the best I can get out of it is that the appointment part has to do with expectations and so disappointment means disillusion in failed expectations. But it seems like an amazing stretch. Doesn't it?
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