COMPLACENCY, n.
1. 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.2. The cause of pleasure or joy.3. 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.]