All 4 Uses of
compliance
in
Mansfield Park
- Young folks in their situation should be excused complying with the common forms.†
Chpt 12 *
- In the evening it was found, according to the predetermination of Mrs. Grant and her sister, that after making up the whist-table there would remain sufficient for a round game, and everybody being as perfectly complying and without a choice as on such occasions they always are, speculation was decided on almost as soon as whist; and Lady Bertram soon found herself in the critical situation of being applied to for her own choice between the games, and being required either to draw a…†
Chpt 25
- Mrs. Price was greatly obliged and very complying.†
Chpt 41
- …of the crime itself, giving it every reproach but the right; considering its ill consequences only as they were to be braved or overborne by a defiance of decency and impudence in wrong; and last of all, and above all, recommending to us a compliance, a compromise, an acquiescence in the continuance of the sin, on the chance of a marriage which, thinking as I now thought of her brother, should rather be prevented than sought; all this together most grievously convinced me that I had…†
Chpt 47
Definition:
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(compliance) to conform to rules or the wishes of others