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pliancy|ˈplaɪənsɪ|
[f. pliant a. : see -ancy.]
The quality of being pliant; flexibility. a. Of material things: see pliant a. 1.
1711Addison Spect. No. 115 ⁋5 Giving such an Activity to the Limbs, and such a Pliancy to every Part. 1787Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 97 The difficulty was..to give to old wood the pliancy of young. 1835James Gispy ii, The agile pliancy of youth.
b. fig. Of the mind, etc.: see pliant a. 2.
1789Bp. Watson Anecd. (1817) 225 To be overlooked for want of political pliancy, is a circumstance I need not blush to own. 1810Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) I. 424 Social dexterity and pliancy of mind. 1879B. Taylor Stud. Germ. Lit. 210 A very little tact and pliancy of nature might have greatly advanced his fortunes. |