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obligingness
(encz) | obligingness, n: |
Obligingness
(gcide) | obliging \o*bli"ging\ ([-o]*bl[imac]"j[i^]ng), a.
Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors;
hence, helpful; civil; kind.
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Mons. Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very
obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them.
--Addison.
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Syn: Civil; complaisant; courteous; kind, -- Obliging,
Kind, Complaisant.
Usage: One is kind who desires to see others happy; one is
complaisant who endeavors to make them so in social
intercourse by attentions calculated to please; one
who is obliging performs some actual service, or has
the disposition to do so.
[1913 Webster] -- O*bli"ging*ly. adv. --
O*bli"ging*ness, n.
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obligingness
(wn) | obligingness
n 1: a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
[syn: complaisance, compliance, compliancy,
obligingness, deference] |
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Disobligingness
(gcide) | Disobliging \Dis`o*bli"ging\, a.
1. Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating;
as, a disobliging person or act.
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2. Displeasing; offensive. [Obs.] --Cov. of Tongue. --
Dis`o*bli"ging*ly, adv. -- Dis`o*bli"ging*ness, n.
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Obligingness
(gcide) | obliging \o*bli"ging\ ([-o]*bl[imac]"j[i^]ng), a.
Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors;
hence, helpful; civil; kind.
[1913 Webster]
Mons. Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very
obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Civil; complaisant; courteous; kind, -- Obliging,
Kind, Complaisant.
Usage: One is kind who desires to see others happy; one is
complaisant who endeavors to make them so in social
intercourse by attentions calculated to please; one
who is obliging performs some actual service, or has
the disposition to do so.
[1913 Webster] -- O*bli"ging*ly. adv. --
O*bli"ging*ness, n.
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