amenable
adjective
ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable.
amenability
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a word derived from
amenable.
Example Sentences
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This is a moment of clarity, in which all of the women in the room witness together both the necessity of forgiveness and its irreducible complications, its transformative power alongside its dangerous amenability to injustice.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2023
It also says a lot about Oshie’s versatility and amenability.
From Washington Times ● May 18, 2021
Lauren Bauser, an assistant state appellate defender, noted the “evolving” standards in courts and legislatures regarding young offenders, ensuring that their prison sentences are proportionate to their culpability and their amenability to rehabilitation.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2021
The department cited Smith’s age, his amenability to treatment, and the degree of risk he posed to public safety.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2019
This is a most important point, for it is on this amenability to suggestion by the thought of another that all the phenomena of healing, whether present or absent, of telepathy and the like, depend.
From The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward
