complacencies

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A form of complacency — A feeling of contented self-satisfaction, especially when unaware of upcoming trouble.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of complacency
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    Her original view had been that if poor Beadel, worked up, as she inveterately kept seeing him, should embrace the tragic remedy, Howard Bight wouldn't be able not to show as practically compromised. He wouldn't be able not to smell of the wretched man's blood, morally speaking, too strongly for condonations or complacencies.

    1901, Henry James, The Papers
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