unpliablenessn.

1595 A. Golding tr. J. Hurault Politicke, Moral, & Martial Disc. ii. v. 241 Kindnes or gentlenes matched with meeldnes, is a vertue..keeping men from..the default of vnpliablenes like the cloune and the churle.

1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse 99 I feele very usually such a stiffnesse, or unpliablenesse in my selfe, as I would not willingly bee either led or driven.

1675 I. Newton Let. 7 Dec. in Corr. (1959) I. 373 In refraction this rigid tenacity or unpliableness of the Superficies need not be considered.

c1721 W. Gibson True Method dieting Horses i. 11 From an Unpliableness or Straitness of the Ligaments.

1754 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. I. 158 That the commons,..by their unpliableness and independance, were insensibly changing.

1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 9 The line by reason of their unpliableness must be much endangered.

1835 D. Walker Brit. Manly Exercises (ed. 3) 110 A long one would compel him to bring his heel more backward than the unpliableness of his pastern would easily admit.

1938 C. G. W. Schumann Struct. Changes & Business Cycles S. Afr. p. vii It lightly discards the limitations and unpliableness of the material.

1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 260 Pitta..does harden to cardboardy unpliableness if left out too brazenly.