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Pliant   /plˈaɪənt/   Listen
adjective
Pliant  adj.  
1.
Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart. "The will was then ductile and pliant to right reason."
2.
Favorable to pliancy. (R.) "A pliant hour."





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"Pliant" Quotes from Famous Books



... goodly frame, Quaint cushions, large and small, Are fitly fashioned, each in place, And pliant, one and all. ...
— Mother Truth's Melodies - Common Sense For Children • Mrs. E. P. Miller
... high enough to oblige her to look up to it. She was laughing with all the glee of a child; darting the piece of sugar about incessantly from place to place. Every moment, her head and neck assumed some new and lovely turn—every moment her figure naturally fell into the position which showed its pliant symmetry best. The last-left glow of the evening atmosphere was shining on her—the farewell pause of daylight over the kindred daylight of ...
— Basil • Wilkie Collins
... royalist faction; the latter, which was beginning to be important, would have been listened to had it offered power to him. About the end of July he sent his 'aide de camp' La Vallette to Paris. La Vallette was a man of good sense and education, pleasing manners, pliant temper, and moderate opinions. He was decidedly devoted to Bonaparte. With his instructions he received a private cipher to enable him ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... with pliant shoots the vine Round nearest tree-trunk winds her way, He shall be ever twined in thine Embraces:—yet, lo! wanes the day: 105 Prithee, come forth ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... still quivering Starkad rent away with his steel the remnant of his life; thus disclosing his treachery when he ought to have brought aid. I do not think that I need examine the version which relates that the pliant withies, hardened with the sudden grip, acted like a ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")


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