Crossword clues for obligingness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
obliging \o*bli"ging\ ([-o]*bl[imac]"j[i^]ng), a. Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind.
Mons. Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very
obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them.
--Addison.
Syn: Civil; complaisant; courteous; kind, -- Obliging, Kind, Complaisant.
Usage: One is kind who desires to see others happy; one is complaisant who endeavors to make them so in social intercourse by attentions calculated to please; one who is obliging performs some actual service, or has the disposition to do so. [1913 Webster] -- O*bli"ging*ly. adv. -- O*bli"ging*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being obliging; the tendency to cater for the desires of others.
WordNet
n. a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others [syn: complaisance, compliance, compliancy, deference]
Usage examples of "obligingness".
Outside Vealos we had the pleasure of waving a last farewell to a man to whom the expedition will always owe a debt of gratitude, Captain Christian Blom, Superintendent of the dockyard, who had supervised the extensive repairs to the Fram with unrelaxing interest and obligingness.