Complacence, Complacency

[L. Lat. com placentia - con, and placeo, to please; Fr. complaisance.] State of being pleased or gratified; pleasure; gratification; satisfaction. "Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with compla cency." - Add is on. -The cause of pleasure, satisfaction, or joy. "O thou, my sole complacence!" - Milton . -Complaisance; civility; softne or urbanity of man Complacent, a. Pleasing; civil; affable; kind; complaisant; displaying gratification; as, a complacent ners. air. "They look up with a sort of complacent awe to kings." - Burke . Complacen'tial, a . Marked by complacence. "The vertebre of the neck and back-bone are made short and comp lanated." - Derham.