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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Complaisance \Com"plai*sance`\ (?; 277), n. [F. complaisance. See {Complaisant}, and cf {Complacence}.] Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility. These [ladies] . . . are by the just complaisance and gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our people. --Addison. They strive with their own hearts and keep them down In complaisance to all the fools in town. --Young. Syn: Civility; courtesy; urbanity; suavity; affability; good breeding. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: complaisance n : a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others [syn: {compliance}, {compliancy}, {obligingness}, {deference}]
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