o·blig·ing

(ə-blī′jĭng)

adj.

Ready to do favors for others; accommodating.

o·blig′ing·ly adv.

o·blig′ing·ness n.

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Noun

obligingness - a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others

complaisance, compliancy, compliance, deference

agreeability, agreeableness - a temperamental disposition to be agreeable

Translations

obligingness

n → Gefälligkeit f, → Zuvorkommenheit f

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The Miss Bertrams were now fully established among the belles of the neighbourhood; and as they joined to beauty and brilliant acquirements a manner naturally easy, and carefully formed to general civility and obligingness, they possessed its favour as well as its admiration.

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"If obligingness is the vocation of financiers, charity is the virtue of the clergy.

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