Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Marked by complacence; arising from or causing gratification.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Marked by, or causing, complacence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Marked by, or causing,
complacence .
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Examples
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I continued to enjoy this intense, and lively and refreshing sense of Divine things, accompanied with strong emotions, for nearly an hour; after which, I experienced a delightful calm, and peace and rest in God, until I retired for the night; and during the night, both waking and sleeping, I had joyful views of Divine things, and a complacential rest of soul in God.
Her Uncommon Discoveries of the Divine Perfections and Glory; and of the Excellency of Christ 1830
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I remember one of them says, that "It is to imitate God himself not to hate any one at all, and more especially to terminate the exercise of our most fervent and complacential love upon the best."
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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He loves truth in the inward parts, and his countenance beholdeth the upright; giving them pleasant, smiling, complacential looks, which are plain indications of his approving, and being well pleased with them.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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The act of love in a reasonable intelligent creature, is nothing else but the complacential motion of the will towards this or that object, that is apprehended amiable, or worthy to be loved.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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I converse electively with whom or what I converse with, out of choice, and for a complacential inclination of my own mind.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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This is the divine nature, the soul's felicity, or its complacential rest in
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Spirit of God, and has a complacential knowledge of God and much holy enjoyment of him.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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