obséquiosité

French

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Noun

obséquiosité m (plural obséquiosités)

  1. obsequiousness
    • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
      Le médecin, flatté de ce titre inattendu, se répandit en obséquiosités, et l'autre en profita pour se remettre un peu.
      The doctor, flattered at this unexpected title, launched out into obsequious phrases. Of this the other took advantage to pull himself together a little.

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