Complaisance

Quick meaning: Complaisance is a noun meaning The quality of being complaisant, amiable or agreeable.

Meaning

The quality of being complaisant, amiable or agreeable.

Example Sentences

I see he has premeditated a Denial by the Complaisance of his Features.

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.

Word Forms

• complaisances
• complaisaunce

Synonyms for complaisance

Depending on context, synonyms include deference, compliance, compliancy, obligingness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include obligingness, deference, compliancy, compliance, complacency, leniency.

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