OBLIGING

obliging. Obliging, pa. a. forcing, civil, kind, good

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O‐bli″ging (–jĭng), 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. 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. — O‐bli″ging‐ly. adv. — O‐bli″ging‐ness, n.