I am ashamed to say that hitherto I have only given myself out of mere complaisance. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
"complaisance" -- that every man strive to accommodate himself to the rest. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics] Reference
We are fed up with nothing but vain complaisance. From Wordnik.com. [04/01/2003 - 05/01/2003] Reference
I felt myself very comfortable in that house, and every individual of the family had all kind of complaisance for me. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference
Danhasch, who was ready to have shewn a different kind of complaisance, no sooner gave his consent, than Maimoune stamped with her foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete] Reference
Xingjian’s writing is free of any kind of complaisance, even to good will. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize for Literature 2000 - Press Release] Reference
"One can, naturally," with the utmost self-complaisance. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
The joy of meeting was heightened by their unusual complaisance. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
Then I slipped off to sleep, after profiting by his complaisance. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
'I am greatly indebted to the Prime Minister for his complaisance.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
The liberty and complaisance of the domestic relations were complete. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Was it there before? or was it in complaisance to Maltese superstitions?. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
Arundel still depends for her life upon the complaisance of her over-lord. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
But they left Francis in no doubt respecting the price of their complaisance. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Other lines condemned Catharine for her excessive complaisance to the cardinal. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
We must not now apply the flattering unction of servile compliance or blind complaisance. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
Benevolence and complaisance conjoined with virtue, and yet nature has nothing more rare than these. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Thaher to eat with them; but he not thinking himself safe in that place, ate only from complaisance. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
By her complaisance in the past she had fanned the embers of a passion which now burst beyond control. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
A moment after, everything disappeared, with Beauty's apprehensions at this proof of Beast's complaisance. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
The Grecian king had the complaisance to satisfy him: That vizier, says he, after having represented to King. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
His own assumption, and the complaisance of his fellow-citizens, were inter-reactive, mutually cause and effect. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
My first theft was the result of complaisance, but it opened the door to others which had not so laudable a motive. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Your submission turns their gall to honey -- converts their vinegar to milk -- to the very cream of human complaisance. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
Cyclopean epithets are piled together almost at random on any substantive which will have the complaisance to receive them. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.] Reference
On the criticism of the herald's complaisance in the matter of the Shakespeare and similar grants, see Preface to New Edition. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
The most incomprehensible page in her history is her complaisance towards the persistent impertinences of this perfidious friend. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Nay, what is very rarely to be seen, his complaisance neither weakened his authority, nor did his severity make him less amiable. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
A wife with a moderate fortune usually brings more complaisance and submission, and blesses a house with peace, union, and friendship. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
He underwent this rigorous fast out of complaisance to some Frenchmen, who had been complaining that it had not rained for a long time. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
I shall have my mind wavering when I speak to him; and the least complaisance which I show to him, will stab me to the heart like a dagger. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
As it rained fast, and she was obliged to step in the water to land, she hesitated; but this excited no complaisance in the lord in waiting. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
"I will consent," said the monarch, "to hear the adventures of this merchant; but it is the last instance of complaisance I shall show you.". From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
But I would be most firmly resolved not to destroy my own faculties and constitution in complaisance to those who have no regard for their own. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
With what complaisance the social elements of this capital fostered the brood of traitors who rushed hence to the service of the rebellion in 1861!. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
It knows how to contradict with respect, and to please without adulation; and is equally remote from an insipid complaisance, and a low familiarity. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side] Reference
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