unpliant

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ pliant.

Adjective

unpliant (comparative more unpliant, superlative most unpliant)

  1. Not pliant.
    • 1839 (indicated as 1840), Thomas Carlyle, “Laissez-Faire”, in Chartism, London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, pages 52–53:
      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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