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noun
rare USCompliance, complaisance, obsequiousness; deference, servility.
Apparently unattested in the later 17th and 18th centuries.
Origin
Early 16th century; earliest use found in Receyt Ladie Kateryne. From classical Latin obsequentia compliance, deference (from obsequent-, obsequēns + -ia); compare -ence.
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