complimental
adjEtymology From compliment (noun) + -al. Piecewise doublet of complemental.
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Obsolete Complimentary.
- But Mr. Solmes is a coarſe man, he is not delicate enough for your niceneſs, becauſe I ſuppoſe he dreſſes not like a fop and a coxcomb, and becauſe he lays not himſelf out in complimental nonſenſe, the poiſon of female minds.1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXII. Mr. Antony Harlowe, to Miss Clarissa Harlowe.”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 218:
- Derived terms
- complimentally