suppleness
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suppleness (usually uncountable, plural supplenesses)
- The quality of being supple; litheness.
- 1699, William Temple, 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, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
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the quality of being supple
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