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Complaisance
COMPLAISANCE, n.
1. A pleasing deportment; courtesy; that manner of address and behavior in social intercourse which gives pleasure; civility; obliging condescension; kind and affable reception and treatment of guests; exterior acts of civility; as, the gentleman received us with complaisance.
2. Condescension; obliging compliance with the wishes or humors of others.
In complaisance poor Cupid mourned.
3. Desire of pleasing; disposition to oblige; the principle for the act.
Your complaisance will not permit your guests to be incommoded.
complaisance appears in definitions for these words:
Civility Complacence Complaisance Complaisantness Courteousness Courtesy Courtier Courtliness Deference Facility Gentilesse Gentleman Gentry Lady Mannerliness Obligingness Obsequies Obsequious Obsequiousness Politeness Vitiate
Civility Complacence Complaisance Complaisantness Courteousness Courtesy Courtier Courtliness Deference Facility Gentilesse Gentleman Gentry Lady Mannerliness Obligingness Obsequies Obsequious Obsequiousness Politeness Vitiate
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