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Definition of Swayable

1. sway [adj] - See also: sway

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swayable

Literary usage of Swayable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1874)
"Keats was not an easily swayable man; in differing with those he loved his firmness kept equal pace with the sweetness of his persuasion, but with the rough ..."

2. De Bow's Review by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell (1852)
"... her as more than him disinterested, more than him swayable by the purer instincts, and more than him exalted above the passions of our common nature. ..."

3. Recollections of Writers by Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke (1878)
"Keats was not an easily swayable man; in differing with those he loved his firmness kept equal pace with the sweetness of his persuasion, but with the rough ..."

4. Ormond; or, The secret witness by Charles Brockden Brown (1811)
"This caprice was swayable by every breath, and paid a merely subordinate regard in the choice of workwomen, to the circumstances of ..."

5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1874)
"Keats was not an easily swayable man; in differing with those he loved his firmness kept equal pace with the sweetness of his persuasion, but with the rough ..."

6. De Bow's Review by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell (1852)
"... her as more than him disinterested, more than him swayable by the purer instincts, and more than him exalted above the passions of our common nature. ..."

7. Recollections of Writers by Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke (1878)
"Keats was not an easily swayable man; in differing with those he loved his firmness kept equal pace with the sweetness of his persuasion, but with the rough ..."

8. Ormond; or, The secret witness by Charles Brockden Brown (1811)
"This caprice was swayable by every breath, and paid a merely subordinate regard in the choice of workwomen, to the circumstances of ..."

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