pliancy

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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The smallest awkwardness or want of pliancy or self-possession would stop the whole process. — McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader, William Holmes McGuffey
And again that bitter, perplexed, half-scornful sense of his own pliancy at the hands of circumstance as compared with the rigidity of other men descended upon him. — Robert Elsmere, Humphry, Mrs. Ward
‘Tis to be, but not to live, to keep a man’s self tied and bound by necessity to one only course; those are the bravest souls that have in them the most variety and pliancy. — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne

pliantness, suppleness

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