complaisance
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Flatter Zeokinizul; I know him, Fondness and Complaisance are the only Means to preserve his Heart.
From The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol by Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot de
The 5th enjoins Complaisance; a disposition in men not to seek superfluities that to others are necessaries.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander
Thus not a Word pass’d, though each wondred why the t’other sigh’d, at last concluded it to be only Complaisance to one another.
From Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd by Congreve, William
He receives every Body with a seeming Complaisance; and with an Air more resembling the French than the Spanish Ceremony.
From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel
Yet for all this the good Man was oblig'd in Complaisance to turn me away.
From The Travels and Adventures of James Massey by Patot, Simon Tyssot de
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