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Date: 1600-1700
Language: French
Origin: complaire 'to do what someone wants', from Latin complacere; COMPLACENT

complaisance

 noun
     
com‧plai‧sance [uncountable] formal
willingness to do what pleases other people
—complaisant adjective
—complaisantly adverb
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