suppleness
Noun
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Noun
suppleness (uncountable)
- The quality of being supple; litheness.
- 1699, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, Heads designed for an essay on conversations ↗
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- 1699, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, Heads designed for an essay on conversations ↗
- French: souplesse
- Italian: flessuosità
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