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Meanings of complaisance in English
Catalan
deferència Spanish
sumisión A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others.
Synonyms
Examples for "compliance"
Examples for "compliance"
1
As a result, companies need to make the effort to ensure compliance.
2
However, compliance with weekly intake might be problematic outside a research programme.
3
Use of other health screening services was associated with compliance with guidelines.
4
National compliance manager Marta Lang Silveira said rules needed to be followed.
5
At a minimum, the situation could create compliance headaches for your company.
1
The days of unquestioning deference to a particular religious grouping are gone.
2
His bearing and the deference of the others made his position clear.
3
The prelate turned to the old General of San Ambrogio with deference.
4
His tone had in it the most delicate, the most friendly deference.
5
Underlying this is deference to the moral authority of the British state.
1
Working in, I can see, my own obligingness and amiability with every stitch.
2
His compliance will follow as an act of obligingness to you.
3
Constance laughed again, so fully did the accountant's obligingness reassure her.
4
This cheerful obligingness in Ottilie gave Charlotte the greatest pleasure.
5
This is a sound and obligingness more obligingness leads to a harmony in hesitation.
1
It will chronicle details of company testing programs and compliancy status.
2
Beth's nature was not one of passion, but rather of compliancy.
3
Since the end of 2014, all German clients have provided evidence of their tax compliancy, he added.
4
He curbed himself "That's a bit of wonderful compliancy."
5
For the space of one week you are asked for some natural exercise of your wits and compliancy.
Usage of complaisance in English
1
Rarely need the complaisance that audacity evokes perturb the diffident man; since
2
This complaisance did not raise him in estimation at Vienna or elsewhere.
3
I will owe nothing to your complaisance, but all to your heart.
4
My father, too, is not unmoved by his amazing address and complaisance.
5
Would you know whether you owe the avowal to love or complaisance?
6
The flattering complaisance of the latter counterbalances the rough honesty of the former.
7
The magistracy showed a great deal of complaisance in the matter.
8
But his natural complaisance induced him at least to feign himself asleep; whereupon.
9
There is the folly of resistance and the folly of complaisance.
10
The vassal of Luck slid upon the seat by her side with complaisance.
11
But Hervey surprised her by the complaisance with which he heard the tidings.
12
She ate a morsel out of complaisance, and her daughter did the like.
13
When the test came he acted wisely as well as with affectionate complaisance.
14
Prussian complaisance to the French Emperor was at this time to be expected.
15
He was at once all complaisance, but his face was troubled.
16
To be favorably heard there, you must have complaisance and flattery.
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Complaisance through the time
Complaisance across language varieties
United Kingdom
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