complaisant

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COMPLAISANT, adjective complazant. Pleasing in manners; courteous; obliging; desirous to please; as a complaisant gentleman. 2. Civil; courteous; polite; as complaisant deportment or treatment.
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