complaisance

Word family nouncomplaisanceadjectivecomplaisantadverbcomplaisantly

com·plai·sance /kəmˈpleɪzəns/ noun [uncountableU] formal

WILLINGwillingness to do what pleases other people 讨好，殷勤

—complaisant adjectiveadj

—complaisantly adverbadv

Examples from the Corpus

complaisance• If consensus breeds academic complaisance, chaos does the opposite.• There was a sort of uneasy complaisance in their relationship now.

Origin complaisance

(1600-1700) French complaire “to do what someone wants”, from Latin complacere; → COMPLACENT

单词	complaisance
释义	complaisance Word family nouncomplaisanceadjectivecomplaisantadverbcomplaisantly com·plai·sance /kəmˈpleɪzəns/ noun [uncountableU] formal WILLINGwillingness to do what pleases other people 讨好，殷勤 —complaisant adjectiveadj —complaisantly adverbadv Examples from the Corpus complaisance• If consensus breeds academic complaisance, chaos does the opposite.• There was a sort of uneasy complaisance in their relationship now. Origin complaisance (1600-1700) French complaire “to do what someone wants”, from Latin complacere; → COMPLACENT
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