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Complaisant

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com⋅plai⋅sant

  [kuhm-pley-suhnt, -zuhnt, kom-pluh-zant]
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–adjective
inclined or disposed to please; obliging; agreeable or gracious; compliant: the most complaisant child I've ever met.
Origin:
1640–50; < F (prp. of complaire) < L complacent- (s. of complacēns, prp. of complacēre; see complacent )

Related forms:
com⋅plai⋅sant⋅ly, adverb
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com·plai·sant   (kəm-plā'sənt, -zənt)   
adj.  Exhibiting a desire or willingness to please; cheerfully obliging.

[French, from Old French, present participle of complaire, to please, from Latin complacēre; see complacent.]
com·plai'sant·ly adv.
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Word Origin & History

complaisant 
1647, from Fr. complaisant (16c.), from M.Fr., "pleasing," prp. of complaire "acquiesce to please," from L. complacere "be very pleasing" (see complacent, with which it overlapped till mid-19c.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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