Definition of Complaisance. Meaning of Complaisance. Synonyms of Complaisance

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Definition of Complaisance

Complaisance
Complaisance Com"plai*sance` (?; 277), n. [F. complaisance. See Complaisant, and cf. Complacence.] Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility. These [ladies] . . . are by the just complaisance and gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our people. --Addison. They strive with their own hearts and keep them down, In complaisance to all the fools in town. --Young. Syn: Civility; courtesy; urbanity; suavity; affability; good breeding.

Meaning of Complaisance from wikipedia

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- his devotional exercises, it is his dearest pastime. She is full of complaisance for the king, pious, blameless and worthy of all the love of such a husband...
- . The breach of this law is called 'ingratitude'". The fifth law is complaisance: "that every man strive to accommodate himself to the rest. ... The observers...
- reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the...
- 159". The Paris Review. Fall 1999 (152). - "Dialogue interculturel et complaisance esthétique dans l'oeuvre de Tahar Ben Jelloun", Par Salah NATIJ, in website...
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- between the Church and the secular authorities, censoring servility and complaisance. They also rejected the idea of any connection between E. Orthodoxy and...
- "Every word or attitude is forbidden which by flattery, adulation, or complaisance encourages and confirms another in malicious acts and perverse conduct...
- be agreeable to his Lordship in every Particular, that noble Peer's Complaisance to her, proceeded wholly from the great Esteem he had for her Wit and...
- them men of much greater profundity than they really are. From this complaisance the critics have been emboldened to ****ume a dictatorial power, and have...