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Definition of Docility
1. Noun. The trait of being agreeably submissive and manageable.
Definition of Docility
1. n. teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness.
Definition of Docility
1. Noun. The quality of being docile. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Docility
1. the quality of being docile [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Docility
Literary usage of Docility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the by William Scott (1820)
"IV'—Modesty and docility.—IB. TO piety, join modesty and docility, reverence to
your parent**, and submission to those who are your superiors in knowledge, ..."
2. A Manual of Morals for Common Schools: Adapted Also to the Use of Families by Arethusa Hall (1850)
"docility. BY docility is here meant a willingness to be taught. ... What is meant
by docility ? To whom especially important? Why? By whom should docility ..."
3. Misalliance: The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a by Bernard Shaw (1914)
"Nature has provided for this by evolving the instinct of docility. Children are
very docile: they have a sound intuition that they must do what they are ..."
4. A Manual of Morals for Common Schools: Adapted Also to the Use of Families by Arethusa Hall (1850)
"docility. BY docility is here meant a willingness to be taught. ... What is meant
by docility ? To -whom especially important ? Why ? ..."
5. America and the Young Intellectual by Harold Stearns (1921)
"A STUDY in docility THE articles on America and Americans by Mr. Henry W.
Nevinson, which have appeared originally in the London Nation and the Manchester ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... Wiseman testified: "The Church has not received at any time a convert who lias
joined her in more docility and simplicity of faith than Newman. ..."
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