flexanimous

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  1. Having power to bend or change the mind. [Rare.] I felt my Heart melting within my Breast, and my Thoughts transported to a true Elysium all the while, there were such flexanimous strong ravishing Strains throughout it. Howell, Letters, I. v. 12.

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  1. from Latin flexanimus, that bends or sways the heart, from flexus, past participle of flectere, bend, + animus, mind, heart.
 

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