pliability
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It embraces a group of organs of harmonious tendency, such as Friendship, Politeness, Imitation, Humor, Pliability and Admiration, as the Combative group is hostile, stubborn, morose and censorious.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
Pliability would have become a habit rather than a matter of judgment and will, for fortitude only comes by practice.
From Success (Second Edition) by Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron
Pliability combined with iron fixity of purpose; 2.
From History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson, George
Immediately above Reason is a region producing Pliability and Versatility, which greatly assists the reasoning faculty in mastering unfamiliar truth.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
Pliability and adaptability were useful and important qualities which she found more than serviceable in these early years of her transition from a comparatively humble home to one of continuous splendour and almost constant state.
From The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by Hopkins, J. Castell (John Castell)
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