Meaning of complacence | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Being complacent; a feeling of contentment or satisfaction; complacency.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
2. Delight, pleasure.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
3. Complaisance; a willingness to comply with others' wishes.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“[T]he inward Complacence we find⟳ in acting reaſonably and vertuouſly, and the Diſquiet we feel⟳ from vicious Choices and Purſuits, is protracted beyond the Acts themſelves from whence it aroſe, and renewed often upon our Souls, by diſtant Reflections; […]”

“O thou, my sole complacence.”

“He told his sister, if she pleased, the new-born infant should be bred up together with little Tommy; to which she consented, though with some little reluctance: for she had truly a great complacence for her brother […]”

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