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docility|dəʊˈsɪlɪtɪ|
[ad. F. docilité (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. docilitāt-em, f. docilis docile.]
Docile quality. a. Aptness to be taught; readiness to receive instruction; teachableness.
1560–78Bk. Discipl. Ch. Scot. (1621) 41 Tryall being taken whether the spirit of docility be in them [children of the poore] found, or not. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. xiv. §5 (1622) 360 Nature may giue the gift of docility to vs: but God giueth the gift of docility to it. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. iv. 379. 1750 Johnson Rambler No. 70 ⁋1 He that has neither acuteness nor docility..is a wretch without use or value. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 173 Tact and docility made no part of the character of Clarendon. To him England was still the England of his youth.
b. Amenability to training or treatment; submissiveness to management; tractability, obedience.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 787 (R.) That which the elephant learneth..whose docility is exhibited unto us in the theaters. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 525 The docility of these birds in employing their..powers, at the command of the fishermen. 1814Southey Roderick xxv, Roderick's own battle-horse..from his master's hand had wont to feed, And with a glad docility obey His voice familiar. 1885R. Buchanan Annan Water xxx, Marjorie bore her lot with exemplary docility and characteristic gentleness. |