complaisance

In token of this general grief, I covered the deep for him, put that into black, gave a stop to business, in complaisance to this universal mourning.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

David came to the crown kings were sometimes his companions; they visited him and he returned their visits; but he did not, in complaisance to them, talk of every thing but religion, for fear of affronting them and making his conversation uneasy to them.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

But the only ground of this decree being in complaisance to the rigid Jews that had embraced the Christian faith, and, except in that one case of scandal, all meats being pronounced free and indifferent to all Christians as soon as the reason of the decree ceased, which, at furthest, was after the destruction of Jerusalem, the obligation of it ceased likewise.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

Yet, It's A Wonderful Life has a dark, brooding heart and it openly questions in brutal terms the complaisance of small-town life just after the world's worst-ever conflict, a war that snuffed out tens of millions of people.

Tom Watson: George Bailey and the Darkness on the Edge of Town 2009

Vexations and a tempest of passion only fill his sail; as the good Luther writes, “When I am angry, I can pray well and preach well”: and, if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.

Representative Men 2006

"When I am angry I can pray well, and preach well;" and if we knew the genesis of fine-strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.

Representative Men Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

"complaisance" -- that every man strive to accommodate himself to the rest.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910

Our chief, not relishing this kind of complaisance in the

The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

"Some are, and must be, greater than the rest;" but then, as Dr Beattie observes, "the superiority vested by law in the man is compensated to the woman by that superior complaisance which is paid them by every man who aspires to elegance of manners."

Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World Anonymous

I felt myself very comfortable in that house, and every individual of the family had all kind of complaisance for me.

The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842