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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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
Our young traveller became, by the next morning, very sociable with her cousins, and complied with their customs with that cheerful obligingness which has always so much distinguished her character.
From Jemima Placid or, The Advantage of Good-Nature by Mary Ann (n?e Maze) Kilner
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
According to that system the best thing for a man to do is to marry of set purpose out of sheer obligingness and courtesy.
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
Men respected his strong, steady character, his high standard, his sound judgment in matters affecting the stable and the race-course; women were attracted by his obligingness and generosity.
From A Crooked Path A Novel by Mrs. Alexander
