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com·plai·sant 
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| 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 complacéns, prp. of complacére; see complacent)]
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com·plai·sant·ly, adverb
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complaisant
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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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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.).
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| showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others; "to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover"; "the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave" |
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Complaisant
Com*pla"cent\, a. [L. complacens very pleasing, p. pr. of complacere; com- + placere to please: cf. F. complaisant. See Please and cf. Complaisant.] Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile. They look up with a sort of complacent awe . . . to kings. --Burke.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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