What is "humouring"

Usage examples of "humouring".

She pretends to agree when he makes a stand on an issue such as Sam's habit of talking to friends on the telephone for half an hour at a time, but it is obvious that she is humouring him.

If humouring his foible for royal treatment helps me to come to a conclusion, I have no objection.

After I had sorted the debris of the collection, and set to work, I spent from six to eight hours a day sitting in that large room, with a jeweller's glass stuck in my eye, reassembling mechanisms, humouring them till they worked as they ought, and then touching up the paintwork and bits of velvet, silk, spangles, and feathers that had been damaged on the birds, the fishes, monkeys, and tiny people who gave charm to the ingenious clockwork which was the important part of them.

Dr Christie still watched me, with a humouring expression on his face.

He was still grouchy at times, and occasionally snapped at them for humouring an old man.