obliging
adjective
willing or eager to do favors, offer one's services, etc.; accommodating.
obligingness
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a word derived from
obliging.
Example Sentences
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But here the madame's obligingness quite deserts her.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix
We went in, saw his very beautiful collection, the Professor himself doing the honours with so much obligingness, that we left him convinced that he neither sold coin nor dispensed anathemas.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
It was Sinclair’s trick to do things for people, and to make himself so useful that they must like first his obligingness and afterward himself.
From Whispering Smith by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
At this, however, the Elector cast several ambiguous glances at the Chamberlain, whose obligingness he distrusted on this occasion, and gave no answer.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
Indeed, the fitter subject for ridicule with thee; who canst no more taste the beauty and delicacy of modest obligingness than of modest love.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson
