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Definition of Complacencies
1. complacency [n] - See also: complacency
Lexicographical Neighbors of Complacencies
Literary usage of Complacencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in the Psychology of Sex by Havelock Ellis (1910)
"The fact that the payment seems larger, that in return for rendering certain
domestic services' and certain personal complacencies—services and ..."
2. Sermons by Mark Frank (1849)
"... no doubt, and much rejoices in it when he has done his worship. Every false
sect, no doubt, has some like complacencies within, whereby it is confirmed ..."
3. The Whole Works ; with an Essay Biographical and Critical by Jeremy Taylor (1835)
"... and complacencies, by the sweetnesses of a holy conscience and joys spiritual,
promotes our temporal interests, by the gains and increases of the ..."
4. Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid by Harriet Martineau (1844)
"The consoler may then learn for life how easily all personal complacencies may
be dispensed with, while the sufferer can tell of a true ..."
5. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860)
"Consider, too, that all the pleasant little dim ideas and complacencies— of
standing well with Timpson, of dispensing advice when he was asked for it, ..."
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