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Meanings of pliancy in English

Portuguese
elasticidade
Catalan
elasticitat

Adaptability of mind or character.

        elasticidade
        Usage of pliancy in English
        1
        All his success was due to his servile pliancy and base intrigues.
        Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 1...
        2
        But the democrats averted this catastrophe by their sagacity and their pliancy.
        The History of Rome, Book V / The Establishment of the Military ...
        3
        There can be no such pliancy in the peremptory provisions of the Constitution.
        American Eloquence, Volume 2 / Studies In American Political His...
        4
        My figure also lacks pliancy; there is a stiffness about the side lines.
        Letters of Two Brides
        5
        She displayed, in these court-contentions, an ability partaking both of firmness and pliancy.
        A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4
        6
        The difficulty was, then, to give to old wood the pliancy of young.
        Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
        7
        The light of the full moon only added to that depth, that pliancy.
        Blind willow, sleeping woman
        8
        Then Fagerolles, beside himself, losing even the pliancy of his bantering disposition, retorted:
        His Masterpiece
        9
        The garments represent a thick woolen stuff, whose folds show very little pliancy.
        A History of Greek Art / With an Introductory Chapter on Art in ...
        10
        The smallest awkwardness or want of pliancy or self-possession would stop the whole process.
        Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
        11
        She was evidently a girl of a great personal force, but she lacked pliancy.
        Roderick Hudson
        12
        There was also a secondary issue related to pliancy.
        Wired
        13
        The Negro was not the only one whom slavery subdued to the pliancy of submission.
        Trial and Triumph
        14
        Two humans unrolled a large, long sheet of what, by its pliancy, must be pegasus-made paper.
        Pegasus
        15
        Their muscular force is not great; but the pliancy of their limbs renders them very active.
        A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
        16
        Knowing the pliancy of Dublin juries in political cases, the offer was, doubtless, a tempting one.
        Speeches from the Dock; Or, Protests of Irish Patriotism. Part I...
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        Portuguese
        elasticidade
        Pliancy through the time