docilities

But something else within him resisted this instinct -- the new revolutionary psychology which he had so painfully acquired, and which made continual war upon his old-time docilities.

Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

Wharton listened a while to her talk with Minta, smiled a little, unperceived of Marcella, at the young mother's docilities of manner and phrase; then turned his attention to the little hunched and coughing object by the fire.

Marcella Humphry Ward 1885

Firmness in sticking to it after it has been decided upon; Extraordinary daring; Indestructible persistency; Devouring ambition; Limitless selfishness; A knowledge of the weaknesses and poverties and docilities of human nature and how to turn them to account which has never been surpassed, if ever equalled.

Christian Science Mark Twain 1872