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Definition of Pliancy

Pliancy
Pliancy Pli"an*cy, n. The quality or state of being pliant in sense; as, the pliancy of a rod. ``Avaunt all specious pliancy of mind.' --Wordsworth.

Meaning of Pliancy from wikipedia

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- representative of intelligence and wisdom, flexibility, softness, and pliancy; however, an overabundance of the element is said to cause difficulty in...
- sbyang ba, Pali: p****addhi) is a Mahayana Buddhist term translated as "pliancy", "flexibility", or "alertness". It is defined as the ability to apply...
- original shape. Cartilage is one material that a pliant skeleton may be composed of, but most pliant skeletons are formed from a mixture of proteins,...
- were also made to "retrain" the eight-year-old Louis XVII, to make him pliant to revolutionary ideas. To carry this out, Louis Charles was separated from...
- that the recent rerelease of Orlando had her thinking again about its pliancy. She referred to 1920s playful, androgynous French artist Claude Cahun:...
- has reached the ninth level of this schema they achieve what is termed "pliancy" (Tib. shin tu sbyangs pa, Skt. prasrabdhi), defined as "a serviceability...
- "swindle" the poor and unleash the "gangrene of avarice." Desiring "a more pliant president than Adams," Hamilton maneuvered to tip the election to Pinckney...
- imbues her Juno with a steely pragmatism, but more important an emotional pliancy that makes her more prepared than the rest of her clan to beat back the...
- according to The Federalist No. 43, designed to establish a balance between pliancy and rigidity:[betterĀ sourceĀ needed] It guards equally against that extreme...