He declared his resolution not to confer any office on him, unless entreated by the queen; and he pretended, that it should only be in complaisance to her choice he would agree to admit him near his person.
The house in no instance departed from the most respectful deference and complaisance towards the queen.
Nay, what is very rarely to be seen, his complaisance neither weakened his authority, nor did his severity make him less amiable.
In times past they likewise worshipped Aurinia and several more, from no complaisance or effort of flattery, nor as Deities of their own creating.
The flattering complaisance of the latter counterbalances the rough honesty of the former.
In complaisanceto your whims, not my own, I must, forsooth, give up a rooted judgment.
But this kind of Complaisance is peculiarly the Manner of Courts; in all other Places you must constantly go farther in Compliance with the Persons you have to do with, than a mere Conformity of Looks and Gestures.
If you would consider aright, you'd find an agreeable Change in dismissing the Attendance of a Slave, to receive the Complaisance of a Companion.
The two last Instances of his Complaisance I forbear to consider, having it in my thoughts at present only to speak of obsequious Behaviour as it sits upon a Companion in Pleasure, not a Man of Design and Intrigue.
For if we examine thoroughly the Idea of what we call so, we shall find it to be nothing else but an Imitation and Mimickry of Good-nature, or in other Terms, Affability, Complaisance and Easiness of Temper reduced into an Art.
When it comes to that, the unnatural State a Man lives in, when his Patron pleases, is ended; and his Guilt and Complaisance are objected to him, tho the Man who rejects him for his Vices was not only his Partner but Seducer.
The probabilities are, however, that as yet they were due rather to the complaisance of the elder sister Mary than to the attractions of the younger.
In complaisance to Tyrrell, I endeavoured to accelerate my steed.
However, the chairmen carried him home, and got him upstairs, when his great complaisance would wait on them downstairs, which he did, and then was got quietly to bed.
This Complaisance of our Court won the King of Sweden's Heart.
Such extraordinaryComplaisance in a Courtier made me suspect the Sincerity of his Intentions, and I was quickly convinc'd that my Jealousy was but too well founded.
Then again the Czar had been secretly warned by Talleyrand against complaisance to the French Emperor.
The commander-in-chief was the septuagenarian Duke of Brunswick, well known for his failure at Valmy in 1792 and his recent support to the policy of complaisance to France.
While England and Russia found great difficulty in coming to an accord, and Austria was arming only from fear, the least act of complaisance on his part would have unravelled this ill-knit confederacy.
Thanks to the complaisance of their Kings, the Grand Duchy of Berg and Cleves was granted to Murat, while the energetic and trusty Berthier was rewarded with the Principality of Neufchâtel and a truly princely fortune.
Prussian complaisance to the French Emperor was at this time to be expected.
We lived together twenty years without any children, yet her barrenness did hot hinder my haying a great deal of complaisance and friendship for her.
Sir, says she, if you have any kindness or complaisance left for me, I beseech you to put no force upon me; allow me to give myself up to mortal grief; it is impossible for time to lessen it.
I shall have my mind wavering when I speak to him; and the leastcomplaisance which I show to him, will stab me to the heart like a dagger.
She listened smilingly to the Elector's honeyed words, and received his attentions with the gracious complaisance of a Queen.
As for the Princess, she accepted her new dignities with the complaisance to be expected from the daughter of a Tsarina.
But you see you cannot honour this admiring company with this little expected, and, but in complaisance to his folly, I dare say, little desired freedom.
The one is, a secret inclination which all men have, but especially the great, of receiving praise without any precaution, and of judging favourably of all that admire them, and show an unlimited submission and complaisance to their humours.
Then that old Princess, who had affected anger affected now a complaisance towards that gentleman.
He did not so much as know that I had ever read a metaphysical book:--was I therefore, out of complaisance or deference to him, to forget whether I had or not?
They are told that you have a hump on your back, and then wonder at your assurance or want of complaisance in walking into a room where they are, without it.
Her father and mother have changed their names to Noel, in compliance with Lord Wentworth's will, and in complaisance to the property bequeathed by him.
A general complaisance and attention to that sex is therefore established by custom, and certainly necessary.
It is a complaisance due to the custom of the place, and by no means, as some silly people have imagined, an implied approbation of their doctrine.
It is amusing and provoking to notice the air of complaisance with which some of these begging epistles are suffused.
But upon Bernard's removal, and his taking the chair as lieutenant governor, he had no farther expectations from the people nor complaisance for their opinions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "complaisance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
