Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being pliant; flexibility.
Wiktionary
- n. The state or quality of being pliant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. adaptability of mind or character
- n. the property of being pliant and flexible
Etymologies
- From pliant + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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
“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.”
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