Usage: One is kind who desires to see others happy; one is complaisant who endeavors to make them so in social intercourse by attentions calculated to please; one who is obliging performs some actual service, or has the disposition to do so. ※ -- {O*bli"ging*ly}. adv. -- {O*bli"ging*ness}, n.
Every Sunday, the believers in the nearby church obligingly sing their hymns so loudly that I can join in my favourites while continuing to garden and avoid the prayers.