yielding
adjective
inclined to give in; submissive; compliant.
yieldingness
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a word derived from
yielding.
Example Sentences
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Ifemelu wanted to say, “I don’t give her too many choices,” because she wished Kimberly would not be so sheer in her yieldingness; perhaps Morgan just needed to feel that her mother could push back.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Whether the common dislike of children to water has anything to do with its soft yieldingness to touch I cannot say.
From Children's Ways by James Sully
She knew that she would have been brilliant and fascinating, if she had not been repressed; with all her faults, there was a more feminine yieldingness about her, than about herself.
From Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
The sense of its smooth softness, its yieldingness, and the danger lurking beneath the flowing surface was acute.
From Nocturne by Frank Swinnerton
Yesterday I held your hand, Reverently I pressed it, And its gentle yieldingness From my soul I blessed it.
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by William Dean Howells
