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Definitions for complaisance
kəmˈpleɪ səns, -zəns, ˈkɒm pləˌzænscom·plai·sance

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness, deferencenoun

    a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others

Wiktionary

  1. complaisancenoun

    The quality of being complaisant, amiable or agreeable.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Complaisancenoun

    Civility; desire of pleasing; act of adulation.

    Etymology: complaisance, French.

    Her death is but in complaisance to her. Dryden.

    You must also be industrious to discover the opinion of your enemies; for you may be assured, that they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

    Fair Venus wept the sad disaster
    Of having lost her fav’rite dove:
    In complaisance poor Cupid mourn’d;
    His grief reliev’d his mother’s pain. Matthew Prior.

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  1. complaisance

    Complaisance is the willingness to be agreeable or cooperative in order to please others or maintain harmonious relationships. It often involves being flexible, obliging, and tolerant, sometimes at the expense of one's personal preferences or beliefs.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Complaisancenoun

    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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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of complaisance in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of complaisance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of complaisance in a Sentence

  1. Agnes Repplier:

    It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

  2. Robert Burns:

    The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creatureBut still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid featureYet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended.

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