- complacential
- adjective
Etymology: Medieval Latin complacentia + English -al
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
complacential
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Complacential — Com pla*cen tial, a. Marked by, or causing, complacence. [Obs.] Complacential love. Baxter. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
New Divinity — The New Divinity (or Hopkinsianism, after Samuel Hopkins) is a system of Christian theology that was very prominent in New England in the late 18th century. Its roots are embedded in the published and unpublished writings of Jonathan Edwards;… … Wikipedia
complaisant — [17] Complaisant and complacent [17] are virtual doublets. Both come from Latin complacēre ‘please greatly’ (a compound verb formed from placēre, source of English please), but they reached English along different routes. Complaisant came via… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
complaisant — [17] Complaisant and complacent [17] are virtual doublets. Both come from Latin complacēre ‘please greatly’ (a compound verb formed from placēre, source of English please), but they reached English along different routes. Complaisant came via… … Word origins
