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compliance Noun 1. complying 2. a tendency to do what others want compliant adj
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compliance 2. submissiveness, yielding, submission, obedience, deference, passivity, acquiescence, complaisance, consent << OPPOSITE defiance Translations compliance [kəmˈplaɪəns] n (= submission) → docilité f (= agreement); in compliance with → en conformité avec, conformément à compliance [kəmˈplaɪəns] n → Fügsamkeit f; (agreement) → Einverständnis nt; compliance with → Einverständnis mit, Zustimmung f zu; compliance [kəmˈplaɪəns] n → acquiescenza; in compliance with [+ orders, wishes etc] → in conformità con How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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With reflections of this nature she usually, as has been hinted, accompanied every act of compliance with her brother's inclinations; and surely nothing could more contribute to heighten the merit of this compliance than a declaration that she knew, at the same time, the folly and unreasonableness of those inclinations to which she submitted. Lady Dorothea is lovely and Engaging; I prefer no woman to her; but know Sir, that I scorn to marry her in compliance with your Wishes. Elton's best compliments, "that he was proposing to leave Highbury the following morning in his way to Bath; where, in compliance with the pressing entreaties of some friends, he had engaged to spend a few weeks, and very much regretted the impossibility he was under, from various circumstances of weather and business, of taking a personal leave of Mr. |
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