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Definition of Pliabilities
1. pliability [n] - See also: pliability
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pliabilities
Literary usage of Pliabilities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos by Charles William Day (1844)
"It is in this way that harlots become countesses, panders " noblemen," and tutors
bishops, whilst, from the absence of such degrading pliabilities, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"An elastic interpretation of the Koran, inspired by the unyielding force of events
and excused by the linguistic pliabilities of the Moslems, declares that ..."
3. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1891)
"His philosophy is a witticism; his literature a talk; his art a trade; doomed to
national decomposition by the pliabilities of his character, to be overrun ..."
4. A Manual of Applied Mechanics by William John Macquorn Rankine (1904)
"The equations of Article 256 show the pliabilities of a perfect fluid to be
infinite, with the exception of the cubic compressibility, which is ^ . ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1847)
"Our verbal identities, and verbal modifications, the defects and the pliabilities
of language, point to some unity of element in the case of various virtues ..."
6. The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos by Charles William Day (1844)
"It is in this way that harlots become countesses, panders " noblemen," and tutors
bishops, whilst, from the absence of such degrading pliabilities, ..."
7. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"An elastic interpretation of the Koran, inspired by the unyielding force of events
and excused by the linguistic pliabilities of the Moslems, declares that ..."
8. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1891)
"His philosophy is a witticism; his literature a talk; his art a trade; doomed to
national decomposition by the pliabilities of his character, to be overrun ..."
9. A Manual of Applied Mechanics by William John Macquorn Rankine (1904)
"The equations of Article 256 show the pliabilities of a perfect fluid to be
infinite, with the exception of the cubic compressibility, which is ^ . ..."
10. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1847)
"Our verbal identities, and verbal modifications, the defects and the pliabilities
of language, point to some unity of element in the case of various virtues ..."
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