Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being pliant; flexibility.
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- noun The state or quality of being
pliant .
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- noun adaptability of mind or character
- noun the property of being pliant and flexible
Etymologies
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From pliant + -ness
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Examples
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It behoves you also to go to prayer with a most entire resignation and submission and pliantness to go that way in religion and in life that God points out to you.
Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings Alexander Whyte 1878
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The tongue is a contexture of small muscles and nerves so very supple, that it winds and turns like a serpent, with unconceivable mobility and pliantness.
The Existence of God Fran��ois de Salignac de la Mothe- F��nelon 1683
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