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unpliably en · ADV

Etymology

From unpliable + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an unpliable manner.
   • The nature of the man, unpliably antagonistic to the world and the world's customs, might justify some such interpretation of his conduct as this. 1862, [William] Wilkie Collins, chapter XI, in No Name. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], →OCLC, 1st scene (Combe-Raven, Somesetshire), page 151:
   • They disappear at once on slightly relaxing the air-pressure, whilst true incipient thickenings of the surface remain white and unpliably stiff. 1902, Edwin Hurry Fenwick, Obscure Diseases of the Urethra, page 30:

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