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
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
The sense of its smooth softness, its yieldingness, and the danger lurking beneath the flowing surface was acute.
From Nocturne by Frank Swinnerton
In her, this mild yieldingness of disposition was rather a graceful quality; in Richard it was regarded as a contemptible misfortune.
From East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood
Not inaptly has the one river—all gentleness, yieldingness, and suavity—won a feminine, the other—all force, impetuosity and stern will—obtained for itself a masculine, appellative!
From The Roof of France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
