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unˈmalleable, a. (un-1 7 b.)
1609G. Benson Serm. 7 Mar. 55 Be perswaded, let not your hearts be vnmalleable. 1665J. Spencer Prodigies (ed. 2) 341 To grow (like Iron often heated and quench'd) churlish and unmalleable by the hammer of the Divine threatnings. 1779Johnson L.P., Dryden Wks. II. 395 After this he did not often bring upon his anvil such stubborn and unmalleable thoughts. 1795Phil. Trans. LXXXV. 341 Hard unmalleable iron. 1838Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1883) 166 A man of unmalleable habits. 1890Spectator 19 July 79/2 The large masses of rather unmalleable human material which he contrives to collect together. Hence unˈmalleableness.
1644R. Chalfont Serm. 10 May 8 The hardnesse and unmalleablenesse of heart. |