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单词 pliantness
释义 pliantness Now rare.|ˈplaɪəntnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
= pliancy.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. ix. (Bodl. MS.), Þat doþ serpentes wiþ bendinge and wigelinge and pliauntnes of þe bodie.1530Palsgr. 255/2 Plyantnesse, ploiantevr.1602Carew Cornwall 72 To your lymmes I yeelde active plyantnesse.1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. iv. 197 Shee was gentle as a Lamb or a Cow..and this pliantnesse she had partly by Nature and partly by example of her mother.1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Orange Tree, He will perceive when the Tree is dry, by handling its Leaves, if they feel soft,..and yet this Softness and Pliantness is not always a Sign of it.
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