good manners demanded our cheerful acquiescence to our host's plans for dinner
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First Known Use: 1615
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearbiddability, compliance, compliancy, deference, docility, obedience, submissiveness;
amenability, amiability, complaisance, good-naturedness;
obsequiousness, servility, slavishness, subservience, subserviency;
cooperativeness, receptiveness, receptivity;
capitulation, submission, surrender;
affability, amicability, congeniality, cordiality, friendliness, geniality, sociability;
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