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
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
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
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
Her small, plump feet melt to the ground like snowflakes; and her figure sways to the indolent motion of her limbs with a glorious grace and yieldingness quite indescribable.
From Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I by Thomas L. Masson
