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obligingness |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Obliging \O*bli"ging\, a. Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence helpful; civil; kind Mons.Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them --Addison. Syn: Civil; complaisant; courteous; kind -- {Obliging}, {Kind}, {Complaisant}. Usage: One is kind who desires to see others happy; one is complaisant who endeavors to make them so in social intercourse by attentions calculated to please; one who is obliging performs some actual service, or has the disposition to do so -- {O*bli"ging*ly}. adv -- {O*bli"ging*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: obligingness n : a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others [syn: {complaisance}, {compliance}, {compliancy}, {deference}]
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