A disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others.
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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