complaisance

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It was quickly blaz'd after what Manner I had been receiv'd by their Majesties, which was Reason enough to engage the Courtiers to shew me that Complaisance, which otherwise I durst not have expected.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton

However, I made him own at last, That when Health is at stake, it was better to be reckon'd an Oeconomist, than a Man of Generosity and Complaisance.

From The Travels and Adventures of James Massey by Patot, Simon Tyssot de

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

From School for Scandal by Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

To deny this, wou’d be an Affront to the Judgment of the Gentlemen of the French Academy: But yet our Complaisance ought not, cannot go so far, as to prejudice our own Judgment.

From A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) by Chorney, Alexander H.