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complacence Now rare.|kəmˈpleɪsəns|
[ad. med.L. complacēntia (see Du Cange) = F. complaisance, f. L. complacēre to please, be pleasant: see -ence. The original accentuation appears to have been (correctly) ˈcomplaˌcence, as still in Butler, c 1675; but Milton has comˈplacence.]
1. Pleasure or satisfaction in one's own condition or doings; self-satisfaction; † in early use, sometimes = vanity.
c1430tr. T. à Kempis' Consol. iii. viii, Better it is to sauour but a litel wiþ mekenes & litel under stondyng, þan gret tresoures of konnynge wiþ veyn complacence. Better it is þe to haue litel þan muche wherof þou mowe be proude. 1490Caxton How to Die 7 This complacence is vayn glorye. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 290 Se that we haue no complacence or pleasure, in our owne perfeccyon. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1687 I. 7 The arbitrary opinion and fickle humour of the people; complacence in which is vain. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. 446 A Complacence in being low-born, on account of his present high Station. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 350 The complacence of one who thinks that he has made a noble discovery.
2. Pleasure, delight; satisfaction. Obs.
c1436Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 172 The grete galees of Venees and Fflorence Be wel ladene wyth thynges of complacence, Alle spicerye and of grocers ware. 1503Hawes Examp. Virt. x. 180 Full glad was I..For to se that flour of complacence. 1509― Past. Pleas. vii. iii, Enspyred wyth the hevenly influence Of the doulcet well of complacence. 1673Lady's Call. i. §5. 37 In the common offices of piety..there is an infinitly greater complacence. Ibid. ii. §2. 79 That they may have a complacence in her company. 1754Edwards Freed. Will i. §4. 25 A Man unable to take Complacence in wicked Persons or Things.
b. Pleasantness of temper or mien.
1767Franklin Lett. (1833) 105 The serenity, complacence, and benignity that shine so eminently in..her countenance.
†c. concr. An object or source of pleasure and satisfaction. Obs.
1667Milton P.L. iii. 276 O Thou My sole complacence!
†3. Disposition to please, oblige, or comply with the wishes of others; complaisance. Obs.
1626T. H[awkins] Caussin's Holy Crt. 36 Many..by the seruile slauery of complacence, do prayse euen their vices. a1680Butler Sat. Marriage 53 in Rem. (1759) I. 120 All people were so full of complacence And civil duty of the public sense. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. i. (1721) 38 In complacence to Priest-craft. 1709Pope Ess. Crit. 579 With mean complacence ne'er betray your trust, Nor be so civil as to prove unjust. 1714Orig. Canto Spencer xliii, A Nymph so full of curteous Complacence? 1749Fielding Tom Jones ii. ii, She consented..for she had truly a great complacence for her brother.
†4. Good pleasure. Obs.
1675Baxter Cath. Theol. i. i. 8 As Gods efficient Will causeth the thing willed..so his final will or Complacence supposeth the pleasing thing in being. |