Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of bending or yielding; pliable; compliant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant.
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- adjective Capable of bending or yielding;
compliant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Why not make real and compliable agreements to the two-state solution as put forward by Saudi Arabia and the Arab league, and supported by 164 countries of the UN - a plan that HAMAS publicly signed up to 2 years ago?
Gaza’s Smugglers Start Digging New Tunnels - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Why, Miss, I fancy, if you were to shew a compliable temper, your friends would shew a compliable one too.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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You must send me no more letters: but a compliable one you may send.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Why, my dear, it is possible, that you may be more compliable than you have been.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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After the Supper was over, the Count renew'd his Addresses to _Isabella_, who seem'd a little more compliable, but would not allow him the Fredom he desir'd, which had the usual Consequences of encreasing his Inclinations: It growing late, he carry'd her, to his Chamber, where after some Time, she, was oblig'd to go to Bed with him.
Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob
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But there was no employment for any in capital causes, excepting for those I have already mentioned; because Antonius, who was always courted on these occasions, was very ready to give his service; and Crassus, though not so compliable, generally consented, on any pressing sollicitation, to give _his_.
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Mr. Wheler was taken off, -- despair perhaps rendering the man, who had been in opposition futilely before, compliable.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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You must send me no more letters: but a compliable one you may send.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Samuel Richardson 1725
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Why, Miss, I fancy, if you were to shew a compliable temper, your friends would shew a compliable one too.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725
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Why, my dear, it is possible, that you may be more compliable than you have been.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725
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