Lexicographical Neighbors of Complacences
Literary usage of Complacences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"As the natural pity and consideration of women sympathising with his afflictions,
with the sadness of his aspect, their facility with his complacences, ..."
2. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"... beget the idea and opinion of self again and again, refer actions to this
self, and connect a variety of applauses and complacences with these actions. ..."
3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1839)
"... his understanding had intellectual complacences and satisfactions, which
afterwards he calls " serving the law of God with his mind," that is, ..."
4. The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow by Isaac Barrow, William Whewell (1859)
"... that may consist with modesty and sobriety:) it enjoins us not to be immoderate
in our desires thereof, or complacences therein, not to be irregular in ..."
5. Works by Jean Calvin, Calvin translation society (1846)
"... complacences, in which we too much indulge ourselves, must be shaken off.
And this is the object of the Prophet; for he addresses, as we have seen, ..."
6. The English Republic by William James Linton (1851)
"Peace, thou harsh Voice, so rudely breaking the complacences of our Festival! '
How came this Poor Man with a three-guinea ticket ?' Let us rather smile, ..."
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