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unpliant

adj

Etymology

From un- + pliant.

  1. derived from ploiant
  2. inherited from pliaunt
  3. prefixed as unpliant — “un + pliant”

Definitions

  1. Not pliant.

    • The brawny craftsman finds it no child's play to mould his unpliant rugged masses; neither is guidance of men a dilettantism: what it becomes when treated as a dilettantism, we may see!

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