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pliability|plaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[f. pliable a.: see -ility.]
The quality or property of being pliable. a. Of material things: see pliable a. 1.
1795Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXXV. 402 To preserve the pliability of the ropes. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. viii. (1819) 103 The suppleness and pliability of the joints. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 4 [To] give the steel pliability without diminishing its hardness. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 670 The normal pliability of the skin.
b. Of mind or character: see pliable a. 2.
1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1778) II. 74 Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions! 1834Oxf. Univ. Mag. I. 123 Pliability was the peculiar characteristic [of the constitution of 1688]. 1860W. Collins Wom. White i. vi, Those feminine attractions of gentleness and pliability. |