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View synonyms for complaisance
complaisance
[ kuhm-pley-suhns, -zuhns, kom-pluh-zans ]
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Other Words From
- noncom·plaisance noun
- uncom·plaisance noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of complaisance1
From French, dating back to 1645–55; complaisant, -ance
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Example Sentences
I proceed how to examine some of those practices to which the priests tell us the Deity attaches his complaisance and his favors.
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Basilio would smile bitterly and reflect that in this world complaisance with vice is rewarded better than fulfilment of duty.
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He saw that he was getting beyond control, and, under an exterior of compliance and complaisance, he was genuinely alarmed.
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I try'd to pacify him, and spar'd no Pains nor Complaisance for it, but all to no purpose.
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My first theft was occasioned by complaisance, but it was productive of others which had not so plausible an excuse.
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