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Meanings of complacence in English

Catalan
autosatisfacció
Spanish
complacencia

The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself.

autosatisfacció
Usage of complacence in English
1
Class elevation is pretence, not superiority; complacence, not wisdom; impudence, not power.
The Moral Economy
2
Martin grinned and accepted the invitation, marvelling the while at his complacence.
Martin Eden
3
There was complacence in her voice as she cited his other gifts.
The Emigrant Trail
4
The dog stood by, eying his young charge with the utmost complacence.
True Stories about Dogs and Cats
5
This cool and honest speech let down his stiffened muscles into complacence.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
6
It was self-complacent, yet there was small apparent ground for such complacence.
The Woodlanders
7
I could not imagine what had given him this insolent self- complacence.
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1
8
Her coming fitted in well with the complacence of his mood.
A Poor Wise Man
9
He leaned his arms upon the rail in an attitude of supreme complacence.
The Keeper of the Door
10
They swallow worlds at leisure; creep through systems with dawdling complacence.
Foundation and Empire
11
The harm which she has done me does not permit of that complacence.
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 5
12
When Nature first framed him, she took a secret complacence in her work.
Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
13
The war bore me out, he observed with a certain complacence.
The Breaking Point
14
In the man's handsome eyes she had surprised an unmistakable complacence.
V. V.'s Eyes
15
But Michael's clear voice startled her again out of her complacence.
Lo, Michael!
16
But today, his apprehension wouldn't let him regard the cottage with his usual complacence.
Shinjū
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