Pleasure; satisfaction; gratification. It is more than approbation, and less than delight or joy . Other proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

The cause of pleasure or joy.

Complaisance; civility; softness of manners; deportment and address that afford pleasure. Complacency, and truth, and manly — sweetness, Dwell ever on his tongue, and smooth his thoughts. In the latter sense, complaisance, from the French, is now used. [See Complaisance.;I .