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oˈbligingness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being obliging. a. Binding quality or character, obligatoriness. b. Readiness to oblige by doing a service or favour; complaisance, courtesy; kindness.
1638Ld. Digby Lett. (1651) 5 It is an inconvenience drawn upon you by your excess of favour and obligingness. 1648Ld. Fairfax, etc. Remonstr. 34 These Declarations..will remaine..perpetuall witnesses against the validity there-of, or any obligingnesse to them. 1790F. Burney Diary Aug., She is always happy when permitted to show her native obligingness. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park I. vii. 55 She played with the greatest obligingness. 1891G. J. Holyoake in Voice (N.Y.) 12 Nov., This obligingness and accessibility is more rare in monarchical England than it is in republican America. |