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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So in I gently drew her to the compter, running behind it myself, with an air of great dilingence and obligingness.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Samuel Richardson
I can testify both to his honesty and obligingness.
From Cape Cod Folks by Sarah P. McLean Greene
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
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
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
