pliant
adjective
bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable.
pliantness
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a word derived from
pliant.
Example Sentences
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They were of a smoke-colour; and the branches, by their pliantness in the water, seemed to be more simple than jellies, I have not seen the like before.
From A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
It behoves you also to go to prayer with a most entire resignation and submission and pliantness to go that way in religion and in life that God points out to you.
From Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings by Alexander Whyte
