obligingness
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Dr. Diamond's Process for Albumenized Paper.—Photographers are under many obligations to Dr. Diamond, particularly for the valuable information communicated through "N. & Q.," and his obligingness in answering inquiries.
From Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
The hotel, too, from what we saw of it, pleased us greatly, and the landlady, like most of the people we have to do with in these parts, was all kindness, obligingness, and good-nature.
From Holidays in Eastern France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda
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 Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
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
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
