unpliancyn.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈplʌɪənsi/, U.S. /ˌənˈplaɪənsi/ Now rare.
The quality of being unpliant; lack of flexibility or adaptability.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [noun] > stiffness or rigidity
stefhede1340
stiffnessa1398
stefnes?1527
rigour1578
unpliableness1595
rigidity1607
inflexibility1611
unpliancy1657
anchylosis1852
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > inflexibility
unbowingnessa1300
impersuasibility?1549
unpliableness1595
unyieldingness1613
unpersuadableness1615
inflexiblenessa1617
rigidity1620
rigidness1620
unpersuasibleness1649
incompliancy1658
impersuasibleness1659
unpersuasiona1684
impersuadableness1715
inflexibility1742
unadvisableness1771
unadaptability1829
unpliancy1831
unyielding1847
uncompromisedness1851
anchylosis1852
uncompromisingness1865
1657 T. Tanner Entrance of Mazzarini 35 The King, having lived 22 years in repose, began now to find more unpliancy in his affaires then he expected.
1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. v. 106 The Stiffness and Unpliancy of our Limbs.
1782 M. Dorset Ess. Defensive War v. 161 An old officer..restrains the laugh through respect for the unpliancy of high military notions, early imbibed, and consecrated by contemporary folly.
1831 T. Carlyle Schiller in Fraser's Mag. Mar. 145/2 In all other provinces exhibiting a certain inaptitude, an elephantine unpliancy.
1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 494 The aboriginal American is at once in the incapacity of infancy and unpliancy of old age.
1957 Prairie Schooner 31 201 Something will burst apart inside and go Springing through many veins to loosen tough Unpliancy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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