obligingness

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We went in, saw his very beautiful collection, the Professor himself doing the honours with so much obligingness, that we left him convinced that he neither sold coin nor dispensed anathemas.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

Why, truly, his last will shewed what effect your smooth obligingness had upon him!—To leave the acquired part of his estate from the next heirs, his own sons, to a grandchild; to his youngest grandchild!

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Richardson, Samuel

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 Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

And what a smile of attentive obligingness, of incorruptible innocence, of affectionate submission, of boundless gratitude and total self-abandonment lit up, at the least caress, that adorable mask of ugliness!

From Our Friend the Dog by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

And first, that it was with such condescension and obligingness to the meanest of his Clergy, as to know and be known to them.

From Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 by Walton, Izaak