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complaisance
(encz) | complaisance,ochota n: Zdeněk Brož |
complaisance
(encz) | complaisance,úslužnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
complaisance
(encz) | complaisance,vlídnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Complaisance
(gcide) | 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.
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These [ladies] . . . are by the just complaisance and
gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our
people. --Addison.
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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.
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complaisance
(wn) | complaisance
n 1: a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
[syn: complaisance, compliance, compliancy,
obligingness, deference] |
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