Dictionary Entry

pliant

Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation/ˈplaɪənt/Used In Literature ↓

Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking

In a Sentence

“a pliant thread pliant wax”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. plianttool pliantbody pliantinstrument plianttools pliant

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Poetry examples for “pliant”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Of laurel blossoms, whose smooth-barked stalks
Were pliant with sap. As a husband talks
To the wife he left an hour ago,

What is? Ah, well! but most I look to the days
When these small arms, with pliant thews filled out.
Shall at my side break up the fruitful glebe,

Pallas' lance strikes me with unconquered arm;
At me Apollo bends his pliant bow;
At me Jove's right hand lightning hath to throw. 30

Don't know how they're made,
Now, a bean-stalk is more pliant--
La, what a climb!

"Give me of your boughs, O Cedar! 35
Of your strong and pliant branches,
My canoe to make more steady,

“Give me of your boughs, O Cedar!
Of your strong and pliant branches,
My canoe to make more steady,

Along the greensward uniformly pricks
Her pliant bending hazel's arching sticks :
While round-topt bush, or briar-entangled hedge.

Soft, and more soft at every touch it grew;
Like pliant wax, when chafing hands reduce
The former mass to form, and frame to use.

Or earth, but new divided from the sky,
And pliant still, retained the etherial energy;
Which wise Prometheus tempered into paste,

Paint that figure's pliant grace
As she tow'rd me lean'd her face,