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unˈpliant, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Not bending readily or easily; stiff.
1624Wotton Archit. 89 The Chissell..being so hard an Instrument, and working vpon so vnpliant stuffe. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xvii. 465 Like Iron, which is..unpliant, when it is not throughly softened by the Forge. 1735Somerville Chase iii. 120 His stiff unpliant Limbs Rooted in Earth, unmov'd..he stands. 1791Cowper Odyss. xxi. 208 Thou wast not born to bend The unpliant bow, or to direct the shaft. 1825Good Study Med. (ed. 2) IV. 330 We..render the dejected muscles torpid and unpliant. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. x. VI. 610 The beautiful but too regular face, or the hard, but not entirely unpliant form.
2. Unyielding, obstinate, stubborn.
1659Evelyn Char. Eng. 40 Ill Courtiers, unplyant, morose, and of vulgar address. 1674Govt. Tongue 178 Men are..prone in all companies to arraign such an unpliant Person, as if he were an enemy to mankind. 1710Tatler No. 214 ⁋1 These are Persons of a stubborn, unpliant Morality. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 591 The love of rectitude becomes a preciseness and rigidity unpliant to the common occasions of life. 1821J. Baillie Metr. Leg., Lady G.B. li, The dull unpliant dame refused. 1822Good Study Med. IV. 195 Parodynia Implastica. Unpliant Labour.
3. Not easily adapted or managed.
1717Addison Ovid's Met. iii. Notes, The short speeches..which make the Latin very natural, cannot appear so well in our language, which is more stubborn and unpliant. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 173 ⁋12 By him who..enters late into the gay world with an unpliant attention and established habits. |