Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a ductile manner.
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Examples
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You see, sir, the mind is ductile, very much so: but images, ductilely received into it, need a certain time to harden and bake in their impressions, otherwise such a casualty as I speak of will in an instant obliterate them, as though they had never been.
The Confidence-Man 1857
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You see sir, the mind is ductile, very much so: but images, ductilely received into it, need a certain time to harden and bake in their impressions, otherwise such a casualty as I speak of will in an instant obliterate them, as though they had never been.
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
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