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complaisance

com·plai·sance

complaisance

 
 
pronunciation:
km pleI sns [or] km pleI zns
part of speech: noun
definition 1: willingness to please.
He valued complaisance in a wife and felt he was more likely to find it in a foreign woman.
definition 2: a complaisant act.