Dictionary entry

Compliance

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Com‐pli″ance (?), n. [See Comply.] 1. The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.

What compliances will remove dissension?

Swift.

Ready compliance with the wishes of his people.

Macaulay.

2. A disposition to yield to others; complaisance.

A man of few words and of great compliance.

Clarendon.

Syn. — Concession; submission; consent; obedience; performance; execution; acquiescence; assent.