Definition of Complaisances

1. complaisance [n] - See also: complaisance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Complaisances

complainaunt
complained
complainer
complainers
complainest
complaineth
complaining
complaining(a)
complainingly
complains
complaint
complaintful
complaintive
complaints
complaisance
complaisances (current term)
complaisant
complaisantly
complaisantness
complaisaunce
complanadine
complanar
compleat
compleated
compleatest
compleating
compleatly
compleats
complect
complected

Literary usage of Complaisances

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Prophetic Voices Concerning America: A Monograph by Charles Sumner (1874)
"The ordinary complaisances expected of a candidate have not been required of him, it being known that his service was one of incessant labor, ..."

2. History of Turkey by Alphonse de Lamartine (1855)
"Suspecting that a Greek courtesan, of whom he had received the first complaisances in love, was receiving nocturnal visits from another lover, ..."

3. A Selection of One Hundred of Perrin's Fables by John Perrin, Anthony Bolmar (1853)
"... d'un hypocrite; ses complaisances credulity. — Distrust 'yourself' of a ... his complaisances é sè z.an-près-man part sou-van d.un keur pcr-fid. et ses ..."

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