obligingness
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As for Lord G——, were I to accustom him to obligingness, I should destroy my own consequence: for then it would be no novelty; and he would be hunting after a new folly.—Very true, Harriet.
From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson
He was obligingness personified to travelling Scandinavians, and was proud of having, as he thought, made the acquaintance in Rome of the flower of the good society of the Northern countries.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
Mrs. Lewin promised the white and silver mantua, and as many of the new clothes as a supernatural address, industry, and obligingness, could produce within the time.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Then would he, with his usual obligingness, write down his mimic English echo of Schiller's German echo.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
"Have you any commission, Mimi?" asks Scirocco, with his good-natured obligingness, as he enters the room.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
