Bible Dictionaries
Pliant

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v.) Favorable to pliancy.

(2):

(v.) Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pliant'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/pliant.html. 1828.