complaisance
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- complaisaunce (obsolete, rare)
Etymology
[edit]From French. See complaisant.
Noun
[edit]complaisance (countable and uncountable, plural complaisances)
- The quality of being complaisant, amiable or agreeable.
- 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.i:
- I see he has premeditated a Denial by the Complaisance of his Features.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
- It is no wonder that in an age when this kind of merit is so little in fashion, and so slenderly provided for, persons possessed of it should very eagerly flock to a place where they were sure of being received with great complaisance; indeed, where they might enjoy almost the same advantages of a liberal fortune as if they were entitled to it in their own right.
Translations
[edit]quality of being complaisant
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French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]complaisance f (plural complaisances)
Further reading
[edit]- “complaisance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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