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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Then would he, with his usual obligingness, write down his mimic English echo of Schiller's German echo.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
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
He was obligingness personified to travelling Scandinavians, and was proud of having, as he thought, made the acquaintance in Rome of the flower of the good society of the Northern countries.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
This was really unwelcome to him, but Elsa suspected the contrary, and as he had not the common habit of afterwards complaining of his obligingness, she remained of the same opinion.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
And first, that it was with such condescension and obligingness to the meanest of his Clergy, as to know and be known to them.
From Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 by Izaak Walton
