flexile
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of flexile
First recorded in 1625–35, flexile is from the Latin word flexilis pliant, pliable. See flex 1, -ile
Example Sentences
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Who knows now, but that flexile gracefulness, however questionable at the time of that thirtieth boy of yours, might have been the silky husk of the most solid qualities of maturity.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
P. 1-2 cm. campan.-convex, exp. obtuse, hygr. even when dry, glabrous, cinnamon then pale; g. adnate, crowded; s. 3-5 cm. rigid, flexile, glabrous; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
“Nor long the term, an hour's short space elaps'd, “When the same teinted flower the blood produc'd: “Such flowers the deep pomegranate bears, which hides “Its purple grains beneath a flexile rind.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
The purple clematis, twisting its flexile branches with those of the pale woodbine, formed a sweet and fragrant canopy to the arched bower, while the flowery tendrils hung down on all sides.
From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More
Perfect symmetry, obedience, mark their finely chiselled lines— In the highest sphere of being flexile grace with law combines.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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