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complaisance definition

com·plai·sance (kəm plā′zəns, -səns; also käm′plə zans′)

noun

  1. willingness to please; disposition to be obliging and agreeable; affability
  2. an act or instance of this

Etymology: Fr < complaisant

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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