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complaisance

la complaisance (FR N-F) disposition to accomodate, to acquiesce to the wishes or feelings of someone else to please them; act done with an eye to please; accomodation due only to weakness, indulgence, or vanity. First appears in French in 1360, from complacere. (Eluard)

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